Ignorance is bliss. Greed is good, thats whats going on everywhere. What is a human live worth? We are just fertilizer for the politicians or perhaps SOILENT GREEN one day.
I just sent a friend Bruce Sterling's Distraction, it's about american politics etc in 2042. He wrote Johnny Mnemonic and is generally pretty good, excellent even. Fun!
] close, but not exactly the real cegar. it WILL be what we MAKE it to be, (always is), by proccessess we don't always entirely understand and most people don't even give enough of a dam to try to and or would rather belive fallow arbitrary assumptions they are familiar with. but we DO togather make, what we individualy come to experience. =^^= .../\...
The U.S. will start building oil rigs in Siberia & China. Oil to the U.S. is what Ants are to an Anteater.
I've heard this argument before about how the middle-class is the backbone of America and all that, and in a way they are right-at least in the sense that the middle class provides a kind of buffer zone between rich and poor. But the fact is that the middle class is disaapearing because the rich are getting richer and the poor are getting poorer, ans eventually anyone in the middle will inevitably end up on one side or the other. All that being said, having a middle-class is bad for the nation overall because it locks our society into a social/economic heirarchy, and that in turn leads into social class warfare, with the rich attacking the poor (they usually attack simply because the poor exist). There should be no class warfare. There can be no peace in a society were one social group can freely attack antoher. Therfore, I believe the only way to correct this problem is to phase out the social class system all together.
I hope in the future that everyone has atom bomb proof umbrellas as America will become the most hated continent in the world. As Bush goes on his quest, marching across the Atlantic done up like the ploughmans lunch with his B52s etc, he will evoke hatred to this fine continent.