Vivid Dreams Up Ahead

Okay, I had the weirdest dreams last night. At one point, I'm a vigilante superhero out to save the world from a messy garret. Next, I'm sailing on a swoop that's shiprwrecked by pirates. I mean, it was one weird night!

But the most interesting dream came near the end of my sleep. In it, I'm with a bunch of talking animals (go figure), and we are walking in a park. One of the animals goes into a thicket, and inside we find these strange, Tyranosaurus Rex-type creatures. Turns out that they're from an advanced civilization, and they set up the world as a test case to study de-evolution. They started out with their culture and let it de-evolve entropically, going through the dinosaur age, then furry creatures that de-evolved from creatures like us and the world we live in. Needless to say, I was a bit disoriented when I woke up

But what an interesting idea! I mean, we are constantly fed the idea that our civilization moves forward, that everything we do is in the name of progress (okay, this is a Western concept, but hey - that's where I live, you know). But what if we're actually moving toward dystopia? What if the good old days were the good old days, and we'd be better off in caves than on the 'Net? What if our entire conception of reality is simply a test in watching a system degenerate and fall to pieces. Would explain some stuff, no?

Now I'm not saying that my dream-inspired uber-dinosaurs were correct. I am saying that it's an interesting and slightly entertaining idea. And to quote my wife when I told her, "Isn't that what Devo was all about?"