The Tower of Individualism

And it was that all in the land were of one mind,
their relations were peaceful.
And it was that when they journeyed from the east,
They found a valley in the land of shiney,
and they settled there.
They said to each other,
"Come let us mold bricks and bake them thoroughly."
They then had bricks to use for building,
and clay to use for mortar.
Then they said, "Come, we will build ourselves a metropolis,
and a really big tower that will be so high that all the other nations will say, "WHOA MAN THATS CRAZY! LOOK AT THEM AND THEIR BIG TOWER! HOLY GUACAMOLE WHY CAN'T WE HAVE A TOWER LIKE THAT?!?!?!"
G-d went down to see the metropolis and the really big tower that the sons of man built.
G-d said "Behold, they are one nation, all having one mind,
and this is their first undertaking.
They sure are arrogant.
If I let them continue this vain self-glorification who knows what kind of lunacy they might come up with?
Come, let us descend and jumble up their sense of unity. We'll make them into individuals. Then we'll see how far they can get.

G-d scattered them from there,
Over the face of all the land,
and they stopped building the city.
Instead, they established an economic philosophy named 'Capitalism',
justifying everyone's individuality.
The people were happy.
Now they could buy backstreet boys CDs if that's what they wanted,
Or get the newest Ipod if that seemed alright,
But maybe buying a car was more important than that,
Maybe it was making money that was really important.

The people could not decide what they wanted to do.
They slowly became quarrelsome and bitter at their new lifestyle.
Too much to buy and not enough money!
Now that they were individuals they felt like there was less definition to their identity.
So much out there, but so little on the inside.

That's when they discovered Kabbalah, Hinduism, Buddhism, Gnosis, Paganism, and Wiccanism.

The people were happy again, or were they?



Biblically,

- Inkhorn