Really, really weird. So weird I’m lost on how to sum up the first half of it without feeling my head start to spin. Bank failures, the culmination of all that money Bernard Madoff stole, a $100mil mortgage fraud indictment in NYC just today. There has been turmoil on every continent, especially concerning Iran’s election and the coup in Honduras. North Korea is firing off missiles at nothing in particular. The international scene is so crowded with issues right now, no one is bothering to feed the starving people of Africa. No one is bothering to try and stop the various civil wars and genocidal regimes anywhere.
We have global economic woes, 50+ bank failures in the United States. No one trusts anyone and the smartest investors apparently are the ones who buried their money in mason jars in the back yard. Cousin Eddie from National Lampoon’s Vacation is my nomination for Secretary of the Treasury. The rich aren’t even getting richer.
A couple of the 2012 Republican presidential hopefuls went and got themselves scandalized and Sarah Palin up and quit her gig in Alaska and that seems a little weird to a lot of people.
Michael Jackson was coming back, then he was dead. Still is, as far as I know. If he’s the beginning of a brain-munching zombie apocalypse, I can’t say it will surprise me. Not now.
There are planes falling out of the sky and planes landing in the Hudson River. There are seven huge burmese pythons let loose near a nuclear station by our own government to become giant scary Godzilla snakes – and they’re in Aiken. We can’t run away to North Carolina. They have some kind of alien sewer worm taking over beneath Raleigh and I saw Tremors too many times as a kid.
California is literally giving people IOU’s and you can donate on PayPal to help Los Angeles cover security costs for Michael Jackson’s funeral. It’s so weird in our world right now that Stuart Smalley became a senator and no one even blinked.
When I was younger I thought the dystopian future would be like something from 1984, if you remember reading in high school. Now I think the dystopian future is more like Idiocracy, the 2006 Mike Judge movie. Granted, Idiocracy seems like a lot more fun just because there’s a lot more Batin’ and Big Brother is like the lovechild of Apollo Creed and Hulk Hogan, which would be similar to a cousin of Mr. T. Sort of Dennis Rodman meets Jesse The Body Ventura.
I guess what I’m saying is, Idiocracy tells the future and I’m equal parts terrified and excited.