Nietzsche market

Well doesn’t it just figure; last day of Theme Week on The Daily Shirt, and the Shirtmaster has calamitous problems with general internetulation. It was catastrophic; it was traumatic…and it was rather frightening to realise just how reliant we folks can become on stuff.

But luxury’s becoming banalities is a reoccurring theme throughout history. I mean, look how long people were perfectly happy with a flat Earth. A pancake planet served us just fine. It was a nice, simple shape; explained (the as yet to be figured out concept of) gravity easily enough; and gave various religious authorities a wonderful opportunity for ridicule and persecution…allowing them to perfect those arts which would come in handy in later years.

But no, we had to go and get a round globe.

And everyone was like, “oooh, the Earth is so round. Now we can try and find a ocean passage to China to preserve and even enhance the spice trade, as opposed to traditional overland routes that open us up to bandits.”

Or “oooh, so we can’t fall off the edge of the world if we sail too far out. And while we’re at it, oooh, this globe shape greatly expands the surface area of the earth, and requires that we invent things like latitude, longitude and the this gravity business”

But it could have been worse. Scholars of the period could have been bloggers.

2: Teh P0rtug3s3
From: C. C01umbuzz

Re. Teh w0r1d!

L1k3, OMG!11!1!!! Teh w0r1d iz l1k3 soooooooooo r0und. LOL!!!1!!1 ;)

An’…teh pron! OMG!

Maybe this was the abyss that today’s Daily Shirt was taking about…