[Newspoetry] The Future

[sigfried at shout.net]

I think everything Bill said will happen.  In addition, I think Mary Poppins
will rise from the grave and will teach us all to love each other.  So,
strangely, even though we will live in times of unprecendented oppression,
rapacity, polution, and decay, people will start smiling uncontrollably
at each other.  Police will shoot people for jaywalking, but they'll
hug and kiss their victims as they lie dying in the street.  Millions of rich 
people will drive their tanks into the inner city every day to distribute 
beautifully wrapped cannisters of oxygen to suffocating children in the 
projects.  CIA agents will flood the cities with addictive and dangerous
drugs and they will get high with the people they're giving the drugs to
and stay up every night till the sun rises sharing stories and needles
and goodwill with all.

Sigfried


Bill Wendling said:
> 
> WiReD magazine has an issue dedicated to "what will happen in the future"
> where they ask everyone remotely famous what they think will occur. I
> thought we should do the same. I'll start:
> 
> 	The ozone layer will be all but gone by the middle of the next
> 	century. The rate of skin cancers trebles overnight. People still
> 	refuse to believe that they are responsible for it happening.
> 
> 	Crime will continue to fall as police all over the country use
> 	gestapo tactics to keep the people in line. The citizens in
> 	American will have long since given up most of their basic rights
> 	in the wake of media induced hysteria over crime and will, thus,
> 	be powerless against it.
> 
> 	Corporate sponsership of politicians becomes so blatant that the
> 	politico will no longer deny that they are bought but use it as a
> 	sign of pride. "Vote for me! Pepsi(tm) believes in me, so should
> 	you!"
> 
> 	Species diversity will continue to decline, due in no small part
> 	to the continued destruction of the rainforests, the absense of
> 	an ozone layer, and human overpopulation. The only animals left
> 	will be those breed specifically for us to eat or to keep as
> 	pets.
> 
> 	The inner cities will decay even more than they are now. They
> 	will literally be lawless zones where even the police won't go.
> 
> 	The CIA will introduce more drugs into our society as well as
> 	other to fund more of their covert activities. These drugs will
> 	be more addictive than crack.
> 
> 	The United States will be even more dominant than it already is
> 	in the world. More and more, third world, and even some second
> 	world, nations will be enslaved to us literally.
> 
> 	The US will continue its bombing campaign against any country
> 	which does not cave into our more and more inhumane demands.
> 	Biological weapons will be used. These weapons can kill very
> 	slowly and painfully. They will be developed by Monsanto.
> 
> 	At the end of the century, the Amazon rainforest will be
> 	virtually gone. The world starts to suffocate and oxygen becomes
> 	something only the very rich will be able to afford.
> 
> Happy New Year/Millenium!
> 
> 	Bill "the optimist" Wendling
> 
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