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Short Story: Interview with a Visionary

Image by Gentry from Pixabay   We thought the ends justified the means, and that was our mistake.  We never realized that the means colors the ends, that it shapes it like a surface can shape clay.   Reducing carbon emissions. What?  Oh, sorry, I thought you asked what our goal was.  All I can hear sometimes is the sound you hear out there.  It’s a rushing, hissing sound.  But you don’t care about that, you want to know about the children in that aircraft. I told them not to use children. Anyway, all of them wanted to go.  We didn’t force anyone.  All of them wanted to make the earth a better place.  They’re very environmental-minded.  And the thing with children is they’re smaller, so they can get inside the machinery to fix it. The Blackbird, the fastest aircraft can circumnavigate the planet in six hours.  That’s the time it takes to go from New York to Seattle in a commercial airplane.  But it’s not designed to transport people or carry cargo.  Ours can.  And to prove it, we put ca