Wish #1: Get Rid of All the
Jerks
Imagine that you have a
magic
lamp, and you’ve got three
wishes
to change the world. How
about
this for Wish #1: Just get
rid of
all the jerks who are
messing it up
for the rest of us! Get
rid of all the
criminals, all the bad
politicians
(not the good ones that
you
agree with, of course),
all the lazy
people, all the greedy
people, all
the prejudiced people, and
all the
intolerant people (well,
at least the
ones who disagree with
you).
That’ll fix the world’s
problems,
right?
Let’s imagine the world
after our
magic wish comes true. All
the
bad people are magically
rolled
up in a katamari or
something,
and the world is now
populated
entirely with good people.
Everyone’s happy! Yay!
Everything
is peaceful and happy and
perfect!
It worked!
But then... good people
start
turning bad.
Good people turn to crime.
Good people start to hate.
Good people become
violent.
Good politicians become
bad
politicians.
What’s wrong? What happened
to our perfect world?
The world today is a giant
badpeople-
making factory, so taking
out all the bad people
doesn’t solve
the problem, because it’ll
just
make more.
The problem with getting
rid of
the jerks is that we’re
living in a
giant jerk-creating
factory.
