There was a time I traveled across these United States and wound up in some park where the humans molest the sea creatures in various ways for their amusement. They had the dolphins play rehearsed games for fish, and such. One of the things we could pay a human to do was to take a dull piece of metal to some shelled creature, pry it open and pull out the spit it had coated a piece of sand with. These ‘pearls’ had varying amounts of these things some people call “qualia” that would make one preferable to the other. The one I got was mediocre.
Not having the opportunity to experiment on an immature human, I haven’t had to weigh the moral cost/benefit of taking one to such a place, where the gorific glories of our position on the food chain facilitate the exchange of crystallized human will (you call it money). I do note how easy it is for the naïve to be led into participatory horror and marvel at the gullibility built into the system.
That such gullibility may be a universal across multiple realities leaves me with ponderings such as: It could be that you and I attended a fair on Xenu two, where I stopped to buy a pumpkin pie tart that allows you to incarnate on Earth the way the Earthlings go on acid trips, suckered into this timeline with the chance of incarnating as Elvis or Carlin - but the odds were in our favor and we’re tripping as us instead.
Eons from now, we’ll reMember: Xenu Tarts are a Bad Time.
The human experience via pumpkin tart is all good by me ~:-)
Spend my time realising I am not Only my corporeal, the vehicle for the experience
...however, this does require Being Gullible at some point, to be able to Differentiate what is not Gullible...to reach Acceptance that this is part of the human experience, but not all of it...and not be too judgy about having Been Gullible, or others who I think are currently Being Gullible...cause that means I've forgotten the Tart...maybe
This piece was v well written by the way
My only question is: How is Gullibility defined in the story?