Futurama!

I don't feel much like posting today. I will say that it would behoove every human being on this planet to read yesterday's post, but I suspect that's not going to happen anytime soon

So life will go on just as it always has, day after day, week after week, year after year, things getting worse all the time, people clinging to the hopeful delusions which get them through the day, one foolish thing after another, until ... well, you figure it out.

Of course, if all the humans did read yesterday's post, and couldn't figure out what I was saying, or didn't want to believe what I said for one reason or another—those darn hopeful delusions!—that wouldn't do much good, would it?

Isn't there some saying about leading a horse to water...?

Let's look at that glorious future we're marching toward. Let's revisit the 1964-65 World's Fair in New York City. Let's ride the Futurama! This film was made by General Motors, which as I'm sure you all remember, got bailed out three years ago.

 

Comments

[James]

Well, we pretty much got most of that. Arctic research stations with high speed data transmission showing massive climate change? Check! Ships stripping the sea of life and minerals? Check! Rainforests plowed for roads and development? Check! Unsustainable desert development? Check! Massive cities clogged with traffic and international goods (mainly China)? Check!

Welcome to the future!

[adam]

What James said.

We got most of the stuff mentioned (excepting moon colonies), though not exactly the way it was mentioned. We aren't using desal to grow food in the deserts so much (though they are in Saudi Arabia, or were until water became more important), instead we're emptying the Colorado river. Every single one of these things has turned out to be more curse than blessing, because we frankly didn't and mostly still don't well understand the ecologies of the environments we are raping. Like the deep sea - it seemed so full of promise, but it turns out deep sea animals often take decades to reach maturity and breed, and some can live for well over a hundred years (orange roughy). So all that hope for feeding billions and billions of people on the limitless bounty of the sea... gone.

Yeah, the we got the future we wanted and worked for. It just didn't turn out to be what we really wanted when we actually got it. Or maybe it did - it sure seems like money is what they are really talking about, and the corporations and elites have never been richer or more powerful. Too bad for the rest of us, and for our world.

[Ben]

I'm going to "enjoy" the future very much.

(Whispers under breathe: fuckin' boomers & gen-xers, had the world handed to them on a silver platter and blew it.)

[James]

Don't worry Ben, you, too can be a budding entrepreneur in the new World of Tomorrow! While the militant gangs fight with each other over petrol, you can build an army of slaves to toil and protect hard won water supplies. Mercenaries will flock to your side when you can offer unspoiled cans of Neufood(TM). Just watch out for those rad-bugs. With a hard work and a little blood, you can carve out your own mildly irradiated empire in THE WORLD OF TOMORROW!