[THE YEAR IS 3021 A.D. PANNING DOWN FROM A BEAUTIFUL RING IN THE SKY, AN ABUNDANCE OF VEGETATION COMES TO VIEW. THE SUN IS RISING AND A DEW COVERS MUCH OF THE LANDSCAPE. THE PAN REACHES A CLEARING, WHERE A GROUP OF YOUNG PEOPLE, ALL WELL GROOMED, AND ENGAGED IN LEVITY-RESPECTFUL, AND WHOLESOME FUN. A MAN EMERGES INTO THE AREA, HE IS EATING GRAPES THAT HE PULLED OFF THE VINE ON HIS WAY IN]
CHRIS ALLEN
Mornin’ all [as he tilts back to bite the grapes from the vine]
STUDENTS
Good Morning, Mr. Allen
CHRIS ALLEN
Everyone is looking well, we all here?
STUDENTS
Yes.
CHRIS ALLEN
Are you sure? Where is Scott
STUDENT 1
He was here.
CHRIS
Where do you think he might have wondered off to
STUDENT 1
To get those flowers, those ones, for you
CHRIS
Isn’t that sweet, but that wont raise his test score.
STUDENT 2
Scott is so stupid
STUDENT 3
Yea, thinking flowers are going to help, ha
CHRIS
Who among us can afford to be presumptuous?
Who among us to make judgments?
Those that measure the stupidity of others are only insecure of how it matches up to their own.
And, to conclude Scott’s motive to be anything but sincere, is how humans used to think.
Both of you…sounded like our species did a little over a millennium ago.
STUDENT 3
You are talking about the BEFORE Great Tribulation, huh?
STUDENT 1
Tell us about it again
STUDENTS
Yeah..tell us..c’mon
CHRIS
It is a good lesson, no matter how many times you hear it. Okay, I am up for it…Let me see the year was 2007
[FADES TO 2007]
