Futurists are often incorrect. If I called them wrong I would have to support my argument, but as many of you know, a counter argument need not be factual. Whereas calling another statement wrong requires a proof. And we know how much trouble that can get a leading Canadian politician into.
And I quote.
"You want proof? It`s been proven, a proof is a proof is a proof, you know da proof, it`s been proven. Proved. What more could be proof 'den da proof?" Care of the Casual Chris guy, http://www.freewebs.com/casualchris/index.htm
Well, not quite that proven. Even the best reciprocal proofs are self impaling. Last week I unabashedly proved that Pigs could fly. Correct? Now they are stating that the darn sty dwellers are coming in for another over-shoot. Toffler described the wave as an all encompassing Epiphany the worlds people will have. The pandemic wave is described as an all encompassing cosmic illness the worlds people will have.
Toffler recanted, readjusted, undehabituated, abnegated, apostatized, made bad on, tergiversated, and flew the coop, his first theory in a geological nano-second. I suspect as the wave rolls over the upturned dunes of society, it will find both anguish and the glazed look of boredom. People staring into the Shaman’s glass ball have become blinded by the light of changing time lines, altered expectations, Psycho-babble from the media, pundits and experts, and the constant claims of vaccine avail- or unavailability.
I suspect the out-of-touch WHO will foist wave after wave of this trifle on us until we have enmonied the Glaxo-Smyth-Cline’s of the world to untold richness paying back to the members of the WHO and themselves on solitary island retreats in sunnier climes with none of the social detritus toting around sniffles and fevers near them.
Yes I am prepared. The Y2K scam was the only one bigger than this. But with repeated scare after scare of herd culling diseases breaching our worldly shores, what are we to think? I was prepared for Y2K. Scrolled the date on my PC ahead. Waited a day. And there it was. Still ticking, still computing, still processing.
Man how easy was that? Scammed and rammed we bought sold and traded futures based on a scam. Today we plan, predate, post file and stick our arms out for the latest wave. By Thursday we will find that this has all been trash. The Avian Flu, no the Swine Flu, no the Ovine Flu, no only the Vine Flu will carry us through.
Vino Tinto de la Casa.
I love hyperbole.
Mark Hull Du Calumet, first of the coterie of York, Son of Don, Scion of Karl in the House of Pfunkstadt, Connubial of Suzanne, Yeoman to the Hun of Honda, Prevailing in the Seat of Hespeler.
perhaps this is the new form of a terrorist attack/ a vaccine for something that doesnt really exist/ kind of like weapons of mass destruction that Bush claimed to see/ perhaps we should call the next flu the Bush flu
Posted by: nancy mcd | 11/11/2009 at 08:58 AM