DETERMINATION, n. - PREREQUISITE, n.
DETERMINATION, n.1. A model for feeding the rich
2. The price paid by ancestors to become appropriate prerequisites for their offspring to live undeserving.
—
FOREMAN: All you need is more determination.
WORKER: What I need is food on my table.
FOREMAN: Well, work up that sweat then. Your parents didn't build this place.
WORKER: My parents died building this place.
FOREMAN: Then they might have benefited from being more determined too.
JUSTIFICATION, n. A hindsighted motivation for opportune action.
PREREQUISITE, n. Every consequence we curse other people for not having addressed.
—
Each requisite has a finite number of prerequisites. This has been true for 13.8 billion years, and the amount has been exponentially growing ever since. For the past 300,000 years or so, humanity has taken credit for everything up until this point in time.
Poetry by mickeko
Read 20 times
Written on 2026-06-24 at 08:43
Save as a bookmark (requires login) Write a comment (requires login) Send as email (requires login) Print text
