THE HINT

(Mini – Sci-Fi, Humor)

Do you believe that the prophet Noah lived a thousand years? If you do, how about two, three, six thousand? Maybe he still lives among us? What do you think he would have told us today? I guess the following.

The most amazing thing about people is that they’re always sure that they are right and you are wrong. It is impossible to convince them of anything in only words. Every reporter or journalist has experienced this many times first hand. Look, I’m not that young, but there has never been a case that someone agreed with my opinion, except for my family.

Some people believe that they know better than me how events will develop. Others believe that the one who wrote it does not know anything. Why support the author and accept his point of view? It is much more pleasant to caustically express your own opinion. At the very least, you increase your credibility in the eyes of your friends. Isn’t this more important than stupidly agreeing with some “talker and nerd”? And even more so in our time, when the means of mass and social communication are not designed for knowledge, but for opinions.

But here’s how it works. Each time that I’ve received the OK… from above, I’ve hint of something important which it would do many well to heed. However, right away the hint is subjected to criticism and ridicule and, with time, people forget about it, and it occurs to no one to flip through old pages and exclaim, “But we were warned!”

To be accurate, I must admit that, occasionally, in hindsight, my readers do confirm that there were once such articles, but who would have thought that they were real hints alluding to real events and not jokes, hoaxes, or coincidences which are not even worth discussing.

However much you might frighten people with a flood, no one builds a boat. However much you may warn heads of state that tomorrow a world war will break out, they only grin. I won’t even mention the articles on impending coups, epidemics, and climate change; something that only naive people and children would pay any attention to. Argue all you like, until it finally blows up. Or rather comes down.

Have you read my most recent article on the rising tension of the tectonic plates beneath the Pacific Ocean? Oh, you even liked it? But you have your own opinion on the matter? I see. Well, as for me, I cannot remain idle. My wife is calling me, “Noah, come to dinner.” But here I am, sitting at my computer, wondering – should I build an Ark second time? Or, perhaps this time, a space station? What do you think, can animals breed in zero gravity?”