Racso/Aeneas: Ape Planet (Plague/Paranoia)

Two very different post-war leaders on Earth emerge, Racso and Aeneas, to lead special groups of humans and now-intelligent apes (Cornelius/Caesar) in a fight for Earth diction!

Here's one more Coronavirus survival prayer parable, and this one ponders the question of why the iconic Planet of the Apes sci-fi franchise stirs our general fancy about Earth diarism, so I hope you like it! Signing off,

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"The nuclear war came at the worst time --- during the terrible Coronavirus global quarantine."

"Now, the Earth was in ruins, and people were still recovering from the impacts of the Coronavirus pandemic!"

"A heroic Algerian-American man named Racso Smith decided to lead an uprising against the standard governments and declare a more peaceful global 'Republic' devoted simply to the containment of the Coronavirus. Racso was a real prince."

"Racso's wife, Amherst, was supportive and became his female counselor during this careful global revolution, helping the little prince coordinate and rally mass forces and groups to subvert the struggling surviving governments of the world and creating a new vision of anti-virus life and beauty."

"Racso had a rival in the form of a European gypsy man named Aeneas, named after the iconic Trojan hero who founded the great ancient city of Rome. Aeneas the European wanted to establish a more 'standard' form of revised global governance after the nuclear war decimated the world population and reduced all cities to ruins. While Racso was a prince of peace, Aeneas was an angel of antagonism."

"Aeneas' wife was a beautiful gypsy woman named Esmerelda who grew up in the deserts of Arizona but now lived in Europe, helping her defiant husband Aeneas rally his own forces and groups to create dominions of pronounced social control as a substitute for the fallen governments after the great nuclear war. Aeneas and Esmerelda cared about containment of the Coronavirus pandemic but were much more focused on the social value of neo-communist rule."

"The nuclear radiation fallout from the terrible war during the global Coronavirus quarantine mutated the monkeys and apes of Earth and made them grow in size...and intelligence. These super-intelligent apes were led by their speaking general and commander named Cornelius who sought to side with either Racso or Aeneas."

"Racso's wife Amherst was meanwhile busy coordinating the efforts of post-war artists on Earth to make Coronavirus-themed survival imagery art for postings on the walls of cities Racso was trying to rebuild with inventive forms of neo-classical liberalist thought!"

"Cornelius and his loyal super-intelligent apes decided to ally with Racso and his wife Amherst; however, a rebel ape in Cornelius' army named Caesar decided to defect and took his own troops of apes and sided with the forces of Aeneas and his wife Esmerelda. This was now a dualistic reality on Earth, one gauged towards complete destiny...or anarchy."

"Racso took a second wife, a beautiful Native-American woman named Nisa who'd survived the terrible nuclear war and Coronavirus outbreak in the year 2020. Racso, Amherst, and Nisa began forming a post-war 'Republic' on Earth through decisive bridges alongside Cornelius and his loyal apes devoted to more democratic forms of dictatorship. Nisa was very beautiful."

"Aeneas' son Abhimanyu was trained to work with weapons as a young boy and was instructed by his ambitious father to rally youngsters sympathetic to their way of thinking to train to use weapons and think of warfare as the ultimate design for destiny on Earth."

"As humans and apes now conferred about the course of life on Earth, Racso and Aeneas continued to play out their very interesting rivalry. Who'd win? This kind of planetary controversy naturally generated all kinds of art among the surviving masses of peoples still seeking to evade the Coronavirus pandemic (the New Plague) and any other kind of apocalyptic holocaust."

"Racso instructed Cornelius to distribute and find toy guns to the young apes and human children on their side who'd be the future leaders of the 'Republic' he envisioned. Racso and Cornelius served as neo-teachers, telling the young apes and human children that fantasizing about war and courage required a meditation on the fundamental features of dogma."

"Racso and Cornelius established a new Art Academy for young apes and human children to foster and enroll in and use to understand and develop new forms of post-apocalyptic art. The comic book art that came out of this Art Academy was quite splendid, and the school was called Dartmouth. Racso's wife Amherst was the deacon of the Academy that produced this young delicious comic book art!"

"Racso and Cornelius found and refurbished a brown Lamborghini and called it Christine. This sleekly rebuilt fast car symbolized their vision of coordinating great luxury and design with great pragmatism and democratic thinking for the 'Republic' they both envisioned. Christine would remind Racso/Cornelius of the challenges posed by Aeneas/Caesar."

RACSO: Do you think our 'Republic' is worth all this sweat?

CORNELIUS: A dream of civilized thinking is always worth effort!
RACSO: I wonder what everyone will make of Christine/Dartmouth.
CORNELIUS: I'm confident they'll consider such quills accents to the Republic.
RACSO: We must save the drawings of Earth!
CORNELIUS: Isn't that what the Art Academy was representing?
RACSO: Our drawings must symbolize the very diorama of life on our blue planet.

CORNELIUS: Maybe Amherst can make Dartmouth a beacon for great daydreams.
RACSO: Without dreams, Earth can never be a haven for dogma.

CORNELIUS: Maybe Christine/Dartmouth will be canonized as feathers for destiny!
RACSO: The messages of the past (e.g., the Bible) inform our vision of diaries.

CORNELIUS: Enduring holocausts and plagues define the arrow of imagination, right?

RACSO: Of course, my good bishop.

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"Money is everything" (Ecclesiastes)

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