The Oldest Lie

r/HFY
u/Frostdraken

Mankind was born from base clay, from creatures that crawled and slithered through the mother Earth. Four billion years it took for them to climb from that deep evolutionary pit, and as they did they whispered into the dark..

I think, therefore I am.

A hundred thousand years they toiled and died, like lambs to the slaughter of the savage world they had inherited. And all that time they looked to the stars above and wondered their place in it all. Stories told by guttering flames, and charcoal figures drawn upon walls. They all told the same old tale..

I think, therefore I am.

Mankind grew and ebbed, works great and terrible. Cities rose and fell, men of passion and wrath lived and died. Great powers that covered the lands in blood, and others in wealth. And through it all the same message whispered from a hundred million tongues..

I think, therefore I am.