Greetings good citizen, while futurism was once a kneejerk passtime where you spit out what you thought was going to happen based on your general observations, picking trends is the new way the futurist puzzle is assembled.
What can we learn from current trends? Will skirts go up or down under the Trump administration? Wait, am I showing my age? How many young ladies out there just drew a blank when they read the word 'Skirt'?
Don't laugh, not too long ago my wife and her siblings were discussing their favorite recording artists and the son of the eldest chimed in with the not as dumb as it sounds question,"Mom, what's a record?"
Flip that incident over and we have the 1970's book MegaTrends, which reads like a roadmap to the future and may be a more accurate description of a work of so-called 'speculative fiction'. It's not hard to imagine this 'playbook' was in fact a gameplan for establishing a brave new global Libertarian society.
Too bad for the majority of us Libertarianism is the 'elegant term' for 'cut-throat capitalism'.
Why do these discussions about the future keep ending up in the past? Past as prologue. What happened dictates what will happen.
Trends are everywhere but so many of them are 'dead ends'. The current political circus will end just as the last one did with the coronation of the oligarch's pick and the beginning of that picks' four year battle to enact legislation that serves no one. [While rubber stamping (in secret) legislation that would get them hung for treason if it ever saw the light of day.]
But the 'secret' activities of our government aren't known until we get the PSA that there is a 'new way' of doing things and no, nobody voted for it, allegedly our lawmakers passed this stuff into law without ever reading it...but it's for our own good.
The people who drafted it said so!
But the really odious stuff, like rounding up wild horses in the arid west and selling them for meat is done by 'Executive Order'.
Despite being against the law. {I mention this because I viewed a, 'special report' last night put together by a concerned citizen and aired by a Fox affiliate which basically took the stance, 'yeah this is happening, so what are you gonna do about it?')
Wait for it good citizen...what do you suppose they, certain agents within [and make no mistake about it] THE OLIGARCH'S GOVERNMENT, are ordering this for, personal profit?
What we were really being shown was a 'hit piece' against 'Republican Democracy', a 'semi-democratically' elected government riddled with appointed positions that are doled out on a patronage basis.
Does Fox want you to revolt? Short answer is yes but the second half of that answer should disturb you deeply. They want you to rise up so you can 'justifiably' be mowed down by heavily armed riot troops/police.
How tragic that every revolt begins with the cutting down of the good-hearted but simple minded?
Back up for a moment, good citizen, What I share here is just one of many recent incidents of a government that is 'out of control'.
The true question you need to be asking is WHY the corporate owned media is taking every opportunity to convince you that our government is corrupt? Could it be that those responsible for today's gross mis-management want to return us to the old ways? [Where failing to precede anything you say to one of these self-important SOB's without a 'but my lord/lady/their imperial title' is grounds for summary execution?]
The Trump candidacy is, in many ways a 'litmus test'. The Royal 'wannabes' among us don't want to expose themselves to the wrath of a restless, demanding underclass...but if the future 'serfs' are willing to elect a new king, the oligarchs are more than willing to satisfy this demand...as long as their king knows who issues the orders in our modern 'Camelot'.
Speaking of trends, what do you think of the proposed Mission to Mars? Columbus part II or Jonestown revisited...or both?
Thanks for letting me inside your head,
Gegner
What can we learn from current trends? Will skirts go up or down under the Trump administration? Wait, am I showing my age? How many young ladies out there just drew a blank when they read the word 'Skirt'?
Don't laugh, not too long ago my wife and her siblings were discussing their favorite recording artists and the son of the eldest chimed in with the not as dumb as it sounds question,"Mom, what's a record?"
Flip that incident over and we have the 1970's book MegaTrends, which reads like a roadmap to the future and may be a more accurate description of a work of so-called 'speculative fiction'. It's not hard to imagine this 'playbook' was in fact a gameplan for establishing a brave new global Libertarian society.
Too bad for the majority of us Libertarianism is the 'elegant term' for 'cut-throat capitalism'.
Why do these discussions about the future keep ending up in the past? Past as prologue. What happened dictates what will happen.
Trends are everywhere but so many of them are 'dead ends'. The current political circus will end just as the last one did with the coronation of the oligarch's pick and the beginning of that picks' four year battle to enact legislation that serves no one. [While rubber stamping (in secret) legislation that would get them hung for treason if it ever saw the light of day.]
But the 'secret' activities of our government aren't known until we get the PSA that there is a 'new way' of doing things and no, nobody voted for it, allegedly our lawmakers passed this stuff into law without ever reading it...but it's for our own good.
The people who drafted it said so!
But the really odious stuff, like rounding up wild horses in the arid west and selling them for meat is done by 'Executive Order'.
Despite being against the law. {I mention this because I viewed a, 'special report' last night put together by a concerned citizen and aired by a Fox affiliate which basically took the stance, 'yeah this is happening, so what are you gonna do about it?')
Wait for it good citizen...what do you suppose they, certain agents within [and make no mistake about it] THE OLIGARCH'S GOVERNMENT, are ordering this for, personal profit?
What we were really being shown was a 'hit piece' against 'Republican Democracy', a 'semi-democratically' elected government riddled with appointed positions that are doled out on a patronage basis.
Does Fox want you to revolt? Short answer is yes but the second half of that answer should disturb you deeply. They want you to rise up so you can 'justifiably' be mowed down by heavily armed riot troops/police.
How tragic that every revolt begins with the cutting down of the good-hearted but simple minded?
Back up for a moment, good citizen, What I share here is just one of many recent incidents of a government that is 'out of control'.
The true question you need to be asking is WHY the corporate owned media is taking every opportunity to convince you that our government is corrupt? Could it be that those responsible for today's gross mis-management want to return us to the old ways? [Where failing to precede anything you say to one of these self-important SOB's without a 'but my lord/lady/their imperial title' is grounds for summary execution?]
The Trump candidacy is, in many ways a 'litmus test'. The Royal 'wannabes' among us don't want to expose themselves to the wrath of a restless, demanding underclass...but if the future 'serfs' are willing to elect a new king, the oligarchs are more than willing to satisfy this demand...as long as their king knows who issues the orders in our modern 'Camelot'.
Speaking of trends, what do you think of the proposed Mission to Mars? Columbus part II or Jonestown revisited...or both?
Thanks for letting me inside your head,
Gegner
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