Visions of the Future
2002-08-01 - 12:53 p.m.
In the future, but not too far off, because I'd love to see this happen...
1) The sly middle class overthrows the senior center known as the American government. New laws are put into motion that puts an age restriction on the ruling bodies, preventing old shits from building a life-long rule of tyranny. Think about it. How well do you think some wrinkly 80 year old, who grew up in the depression, raised on racism, sexism, anti-Semitism, and a bunch of other obsolete '-isms,' whose time of open-mindedness was past before the 60's, who is wealthy and deep rooted in the exclusive country club that our current government is, how well do you think that fogey represents you, America, in the year 2002?
2) We give Texas back to Mexico. We don't need Texas, they're crazy. They want to be their own country anyway. The three last big politicians to come from there were George Bush, Ross Perot, and George Bush part Duh. Most of the southern half of Texas' population is Mexican. The Rangers are one of the worst teams in baseball. The Texas oil trade will stimulate Mexico's feeble economy, and we can import from them dirt cheap. The remaining 49 states won't feel unpatriotic when we 'mess with Texas.'
3) Shao-Lin monks finally get fed up and descend from the mountains and kung-fu the shit out of everyone in the Middle East who really thinks (A) Their God promised them that land, (B) Women don't have a right to an education, walk next to men, or wear shorts and a tank top, and (C) The rest of the world has an infinite sense of humor for you being an asshole as long as you have crude oil.
4) Automobile companies are told to fuck off unless they come up with a better way of making engines go. Cold fusion, hot fusion, luke-warm fusion, solar power, electric, hamsters running really fast on a little wheel - whatever it takes. There are too many damned cars in the world to be running off of expensive, finite fuel and giving off pollution that is eating away at our atmosphere.
5) The Pope holds a meeting with the entire world, millions of people congregate, everyone else tunes in on TV, and he gives a speech. In this speech, the charismatic, young, healthy, handsome Pope tells everyone, who are all listening intently, that he is sorry for all the pain and suffering and hatred and stupidity his religion has caused. He goes on to say that he knows, for a fact, that the whole thing is just a story, that there is no God, there is no Heaven, or Hell, or Satan, or life after death, or posthumous redemption, or any of it, and that everyone should try to make the best of today, and tomorrow, because it's over when you die, it's just too late then. The heads of all the other religions in the world are so moved by this that they too admit to propagating paranoia based on fairy tales in the name of profit and fame and glory. The people of the world stop congregating in the name of religion, and start intermingling with members of the opposite sects (pun very intended) and there is a mass resurgence of philosophy (which has been put on the back burner ever since the unquestioning acceptance of the God and Jesus story).
6) I write more 'look into the future' thingies like this after I've gotten some lunch and done some work and probably a bunch of other tasks. Actually, days, maybe weeks go by before I do it again, but I will.
