The future is now
Y2K has come and gone like a fart in the wind. Civilization's hopes and dreams, of a bright future with flying cars, eradication of disease, gleaming paradise cities, space captains on quests through the infinite galaxies, all were neatly wrapped and sold since the days of Star Trek and futurism.
That future never came.
The difference, what we got and what the marketers sold, is as clear as flatulence from perfume. Y2K has come and gone without a shred of its promise land. A few things did leak out from the incontinent deceivers. Mass communication, GMO food, birth control, SOMA-esque fed funded drugs, non-stop entertainment, and the surveillance state.
Who asked for that? The industrialists + cronyists of course, waving the magic wand of science.
Nothing good came out of science fiction and futurism, only the worst dystopias were capitalized. Instead of longevity, soaring diabetes, heart disease, cancer, autism, depression, the list goes on forever.
Thanks to advancements in science we have more dead species than in anytime in history. Food processing, chemical additives, toxic pesticides & herbicides, flavor enhancements, microwaves, radiation, poisoned water supplies, industrial waste, BPA, the wonders of science and technology are truly limitless. Where would we be without lab made junk clogging up the air, land, and sea?
If you were still waiting and wondering: The future is now. We have watched cities plumed in toxic smoke. Communities morphed into toxic hiveminds, pop culture spewed out of corporate sewage dams. Art died with the post-modernists. Literature died from academic asphyxiation. Adults read at a 6th, 5th, 4th grade level. We no longer have a collective culture beyond swiping a screen and tapping an emoji.
People are getting fatter, dumber, uglier, more prone to disease, mental instability, retardation. Listening to ever more hours of pseudo celebrity e-feds on podcasts about the latest strains of weed, vaccines, and birth control.
Academia became a whorehouse working overtime with NGO's to ransack nature, education, culture, communities, and more.
Was this what Star Trek envisioned back in the boomer days of television? They thought racism would be eradicated, sexism become a thing of the past, and yet the opposite is trending. Races are now more ready for bloody war, men and women hate with a passion of rival gangs, society has turned inside out. Thanks to the power of smartphones, LSD, and social media.
Every one can see it. The boogeyman of terrorism, the senseless violence, the unrest. Politics beating the dead horse of pointless talking points. Nothing is looking brighter. Every thing is getting worse. Mass derangement is the norm, cults of personalities spread like AIDs (another scientific 'miracle').
There is no one out there who is turning this sinking ship around. No, not even golden boy Trump, the humble NFT merchant, in his four years as 'leader' has accomplished any thing more than his prior corporate necrophiliac butt buddies. You can't separate politics and money. They go hand in glove in a centralized banker economy.
But surely technology has actually improved lives. Like cured cancer, for example; with the trillions that have been funneled into its research for multi-generations. Surely cancer is now a thing of the past. No, it is still considered a pipe dream.
The science is still hard at work, counting its bank balance. Give it a thousand years, it may or may not happen; just inject Franken chemicals and hope for the best. It has killed a lot of people, but the balance sheet will please shareholders.
At least carbon taxes and draconian environmental levies are creating more billionaires than ever at the expense of worldwide death and poverty.
The world has only gotten so much higher. Higher definition televisions and smart phones. Improvements that make no positive difference, filling landfills with junk electronics from the previous year. Higher pixel counts and lumens make this reality easy to ignore.
And more vapidity, psychotic shootings sprees, drug fueled rampages, stabbing sprees. Things which did not exist at all in the past, are common cultural pastimes. A box office gem in gum flapping world of politicking. Corporate news media makes a killing by its endless high budget documentaries about serial killers, rapists, and clowns. And glorifying terrorists with coverage of Hollywood status. MTV and 'reality' TV stand by, adding fuel to the fire.
Let us never dwell on the worsening health, economy, freedom, equity, the normalization of homelessness.
The Star Trek utopia was a sham production by the PR firms from the beginning, to up sell the financing of the miserable technology plaguing the world today. It all boils down to greed and corruption in centralized economies. "I am become death" is the motto of the corporate scientist, who signed the Faustian pact with the Devil.
The future has firmly established its course in the twenty odd years since the big 2000. And it has made its agenda crystal clear: profit is in destroying health and environment, war is for profit and population management, destruction is creation; technology can't wait to normalize the next horror filled vial and factory line, while the public glazes over the burning world on TV.