A presentation by Sebrand Warren the 3rd
“Trains were invented in 1804 by Richard Trevithick and stretched across the entire US. Trains communicated passengers and goods over long distances while horses and carriages were used for transporting people shorter distances.” while drawing map with line and horses and trains and carriages. “Back then, trains, horses, and carriages, were privately owned and only used by the people who could afford them. Much like today, the wealthy were not forced to ride with those less fortunate.”
“But you may ask, why I talk of trains and carriages in this day and age. Well, it may come as a surprise to you as it did to me that my grandfather was sebrand warren the 1st.”
student raises hand and sebrand calls on him.
“He was the very same sebrand warren the 1st who was pushed in front of a levi by a plebeian 35 years ago.” Draw levi rail and then man getting pushed in. Audience Gasps “Yes indeed. I stumbled across this realization while perusing through my fathers old google plus account which i don’t think he ever knew he had. On the day of the event his heart rate and neural activity along side a status reading ‘RIP my one and only father’ were posted via his G-implant. He was sadder that day than I have ever felt him before.”
“After finding this post I set out to gather as much about my grandfather as possible. 2.6 seconds later the cloud responded with this.” taps notepad to queue Image of lots of text “Allow as to divulge together.”
“The events leading up to my grandfather's death are rooted in the last 200 years history.”
“In my grandfather’s day people had cities which were big collections of skyscrapers all in one place.”
Why did they all live in one place? Didn’t it get cramped?
“They lived so close because getting around was so slow and expensive! It would take like one whole hour to go twenty miles!”
Wow, what? That’s so slow!
“They also had these things called traffic jams, but I’ll get to that later.
“These cities were scattered across the country and people commuted from city to city and across the the country via trains much like the levi system we take today, but much slower. Like todays system the people who rode the train were segregated within separate cars. Poor people would often ride in the junk transport carts with black rocks” Draw coal cart with black faced worker in it “and trash, kind of like how today the poor people ride with the livestock and stuff.
“That was all fine and dandy until” Start drawing car “Henry Ford invented Cars and then Dwight Eisenhower created government funding for roads. by the 1950’s everyone had a car. Even poor people.” Audience gasp “And by the 1960’s people were using them instead of trains to cross the country. After a while, people started noticing that cars were actually pretty bad for the environment. They kept exploding ‘gasoline’” draw oil rig “to keep their cars running. People would crash their cars into each other, which killed millions of people a year which was a lot when there were only 7 billion people in in the world. It’s crazy that they ever thought these were a good idea. Dumbfounded, I actually interviewed some of my grandma’s friends to see if there were any benefits to cars at all.”
“So yeah, cars were pretty inefficient.
“In 1970 people got really freaked out when we started to run out of gasoline. The governement teamed up with car companies to start work on the initial iterations of the levi system. But before long, people came up with crazy new ways of exploding gasoline from the ground and the oceans and the percieved threat subsided putting a halt to the governements progressive plans.
“In 2015 people finally came to their senses and the government moved funding from the FHWA —the Federal High Way Association — in charge of transit via roads to the NTA in charge of the national rail system now known as the levi system. The levi system started as a network of city to city and “suburb” to city rails and then eventually, when the concept of a city dissolved,” draw map “expanded into what we know today. Nowadays it’ll take us literally anywhere in the US, but it didn’t start out that way. The government had to repurpose a lot of unused roads and rails into the levi system.
“The railway was finished in 2025, but because it was a public transportation system, the wealthy class was forced to sit in the same carts as the poor class.”
What? How is that possible? Didn’t the people get sick and die?
“At first it was okay, but slowly the poor class started realizing how much better off we are. The wealthy class started to get nervous about what this recognition of disparity could bring and began to push for segregated carts within the levi system. Eventually the situation got so out of control that my grandfather was murdered in cold blood by a poor man. The police hurried to the scene swiftly via their sub-Levi vehicles and arrested the plebeian immediately. Because of the murder, the NTA finally issued a five year plan to segregate the carts to calm the classes.
“My grandfather was a rich man. But for some reason — I can only describe as extreme, and potentially misguided compassion — he was part of a the effort to conserve the equality of the Levi. And thats where the story gets interesting. Apparently, there are several conspiracy theories that say that the poor man that killed my grandfather was actually paid off by a group of wealthy class lobbyists. If this is true, then by an ironic twist of fate that my grandfathers face became the symbol of hope for everything that he stood against. By killing my grandfather, the rich were able to both silence the most outspoken voice and expedite the segregation process in one fell swoop. At least, that’s what the conspiracy theories say.
“Either way, I’m grateful we get to enjoy safely the profits of our ancestors hard work. Let us all pray for the long lives of our parents and grandparents.
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