Tuesday, July 3, 2007

Politics in the year 2032

From Buffoon to Bureaucrat, looking back to the MySpace years.

High school Model United Nations students and college poly-sci majors scurrying importantly to and fro their Capital Hill internships, will retreat to their dorms this weekend to upload pics of themselves naked, lock-jawed faces rigid with ecstasy, you tubing what will next Monday seem like subversively funny sketch comedy but may in twenty years ruin their run for public office. Or will it?

One might imagine that as less and less is private, the standards of propriety we hold for our public officials will have to come down. Already we’ve got Obama, the hipster’s Kennedy, hoping that his coke and marijuana days, ‘yes I inhaled, that was kind of the point,” reaches young voters who are at this minute doping, uploading, and bemoaning Iran’s nuclear enrichment program.

On the flip side, we might in the near future have a bevy of candidates too boring and prurient to have considered posting a lewd joke, who’s pals never hired them a hooker, and to whom 'going down' means a drop in the polls. Should possible candidates, now in grade school, start restricting their Internet shenanigans? Then again, the candidates for the coming election are jumping off the wagon to admit they were once users of illegal substances. Does the public want a candidate, smarter, tougher, classier, more ethical than we or is it okay to vote for that guy who video tapes himself stun-gunning his friends on you tube? He’s sort of funny.

Also interesting – While there are thousands of intelligent, dedicated soldiers in the armed forces, it’s widely known that to a large degree, the army draws its ranks from young men and women serving in lieu of being able to afford higher education, kids desperate to flee poor home situations and returning from extended tours in greater and greater trauma. Will military service be a point gainer in future elections, and what kind of candidates can we expect to come out of today’s war – the exhausted, oft demoralized forces in Iraq and Afghanistan, and the WWIII that is hot on our heels?

This is all assuming the Mayan prophesy of Apocalypse of 2012 - much disscussed on the radio show Coast to Coast AM with George Noory and in the New York Times Magazine's fabulous feature 'Final Days'- doesn't end the world or destroy the Internet. Disaster scenarios for 2012, include hurricanes, earthquakes and volcanic eruptions caused by solar storms, cracks forming in the earth’s magnetic field and mass extinctions brought on by nuclear winter.

http://www.nytimes.com/2007/07/01/magazine/01world-t.html?pagewanted=1&_r=1

However, José Arguelles organizer of the Harmonic Convergence in 1992 and the author of a number of esoteric books about the Mayan cosmos believes that: “The post-2012 world will be a world of universal telepathy.” In 1993, he claims to have received a new prophecy in Hawaii, and has been calling himself Valum Votan, Closer of the Cycle. “We’ll be literally living in a new time,” Arguelles said, “by a 13-month, 28-day synchronometer that will facilitate our telepathy by keeping us in harmony with everything all the time. There will be a lot fewer of us, with simple lifestyles, solar technology, garden culture and lots of telepathic communication.”

As for the many who “have not evolved spiritually enough to know that there are other dimensions of reality,” Arguelles predicts they will be taken away in “silver ships.”

Huh.

I wonder if telepathy will be better than You Tube.

Yours,
Scaredy Cat

24 comments:

Adam Szymkowicz said...

telepathy will be better than youtube but tv will be better than both.

Scaredy Cat said...

Agreed. Now what if we could directly stream the thoughts around the Arrested Development writers' table?

NewmRadio said...

Wow! Silver ships for the spiritually-challenged? It almost sounds like the opposite of karmic reincarnation... unless 'silver ships' are new mortal physical shells that one would inhabit after failing the Atman exam. Does that make telepathy perfection then? Me no 'specially dig dat.

Scaredy Cat said...

I had to look up Atman - its a Hindu thing right? The essence of all things and beings, infinite, eternal, and unchanging, one with nature and all that? Yeah, if you're not one with nature the telepathists shuttle you off to an all mechanical planet or perhaps imprision you in a computer shells (or are we already imprisioned in computers? Oooo...) I'll tell you, telepathy pretty much freaks me out - I need my privacy bitch and on top of that I can't think of anything more distracting then being able to read other people's thoughts - I wonder if there's an off switch.

Anonymous said...

This is Valum Votan. I received a blip in my telepathic radar that indicated recent significant mental activity. You've thought of me. Our channels have crossed, and now your thoughts will pour into my mind with the force of gravity.

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