Still Alive?! What Beastly Tenacity!
THE BEASTS OF EVENTUALITY A philosophical one-act play in three movements An exercise in misanthropy, power, vanity and the inevitability of oblivion. ACT I — THE ILLUSION OF CIVILIZATION The Gentleman stands beside a tall window. He watches the city below. The distant noise of traffic, conversation and industry reaches him. THE GENTLEMAN: Tell me, what exactly is civilization? A peculiar arrangement of creatures, each pretending that their existence carries some greater significance than the next. They construct institutions, draft their laws, invent their moralities, and congratulate themselves for having transcended the very nature from which they emerged. How amusing. They speak of justice as though it were an immutable property of the universe. Of sovereignty, equality, and the sanctity of human life. Yet observe history. All the paltry rebellions did nothing to give India independence. The British Empire simply found itself in a position where maintaining its colonies had b...