The Riddle of the Sphinx: The Updated Virsion

What goes on four legs at dawn, two at noon, and three at dusk? This was the riddle that the Greek sphinx plagued the people of Thebes with. Every time that this enigma was not answered, the sphinx would devour the man who answered incorrectly. Eventually, a man by the name of Oedipus gave the proper answer: man, who crawls on all fours in infancy, walks on two feet when grown, and leans on a staff in old age; the sphinx thereupon killed herself. This cyclical course of man is the same cycle that the world population has become subject to. Man started out as hunters and gatherers and gradually progressed into an extremely intelligent and developed race of humans, yet using up non-renewable at an alarming rate in the process. Accordingly, about 30 years ago, we as humans began to steadily regress because of that recent lack of energy resources.

With the growing use of technology in the 1900’s and early into the 21st century, our world oil production eventually reached a climax in 2007. Ever since that point in time, fossil fuel resources, such as coal, oil, and natural gas have become exceedingly expensive. For the past 30 years, there has been a major epidemic of consta

So is this current state of the world really an updated version of the Riddle of the Sphinx? I hope not. I do not want my kids to be on three legs at dusk. I want them to have the life that I never had. I want them to go to school and go to college. I want them to walk at night on lit streets. I want them to sleep in the warmth of their own bed. I want them to get jobs with the best company in town. And I want their kids to have the same, and hopefully even more.

and the fact that I do not get to see my friends as often due to this curfew, it is still comforting to know that there is someone out there trying to protect you. Honestly, I would rather have soldiers walking the streets than gangs and murderers.

Some may ask, “Why can’t people go to the banks for money?” Well almost all of the banks have gone out of business as well. From my readings in history class, I can tell you that what happened in 2068 was similar to the Great Depression of 1929. Too many people tried to take out loans in order to save their business or as an attempt to make some quick cash in the stock market. However, the stock market crashed,

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