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The Future is Coming

Started by Q. G. Pennyworth, November 23, 2013, 02:25:50 PM

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Q. G. Pennyworth

The Future is coming
The Future is here
And no power in the world can stop it
It sweeps us up like a tidal wave
And the old is smashed to pieces
And dragged out to sea
The Future doesn't care who you are
The Future doesn't care whose fault it is
It explodes
Like a bomb in a public square
Indifferent to the suffering it causes
The Future doesn't care about your wallet
The Future doesn't care where you come from
It is post-scarcity
Post-identity
Post-borders and post-fear
The Future is screaming
The Future is loud
It booms in our ears and shines in our eyes
A cacophony of old themes remixed and mashed up
It lives in the art
And the song
And the dance
It lives in test tubes
And robots
It lives in the wires
In our homes
And our cars
The trains and the buses
The offices and the streets
It lives in space and under the ocean and on the farms
The Future is coming
With all the wrong values
And those who do not hear its approach
Will not survive
The Future is beautiful
And terrible
With vertical farms and sustainable cities
And random acts of senseless violence
And it is not either-or
It is all

Demolition Squid

Wow. This is powerful. Very nicely done, QG
Vast and Roaring Nipplebeast from the Dawn of Soho

Mesozoic Mister Nigel

"I'm guessing it was January 2007, a meeting in Bethesda, we got a bag of bees and just started smashing them on the desk," Charles Wick said. "It was very complicated."


Reginald Ret

This gets stronger every time I reread it. Well done!
Lord Byron: "Those who will not reason, are bigots, those who cannot, are fools, and those who dare not, are slaves."

Nigel saying the wisest words ever uttered: "It's just a suffix."

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hirley0

it dries out {get on with it {{ same as Mars {{{solwer than

Q. G. Pennyworth

I'm glad people like it! I was worried it was too unpolished for sharing, might still do another version with stuff like "structure" later.

minuspace

The Future allows me to postpone my concerns :lol:

hirley0

Quote from: Q. G. Pennyworth on November 24, 2013, 04:53:34 AM
I'm glad people like it! I was worried it was too unpolished for sharing, might still do another version with stuff like "structure" later.

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Quote from: LuciferX on November 24, 2013, 07:18:19 AM
The Future allows me to postpone my concerns :lol:

hirley0

#8
then AGAIN,  maybe my monitor is upside down | How would i tell?

minuspace

Quote from: hirley0 on November 24, 2013, 12:33:50 PM
then AGAIN,  maybe my monitor is upside down | How would i tell?
It's head would still be on the past.

Payne

Quote from: Q. G. Pennyworth on November 24, 2013, 04:53:34 AM
I'm glad people like it! I was worried it was too unpolished for sharing, might still do another version with stuff like "structure" later.

It works better without it, I think.

Structure is interesting, but lack of structure is also interesting and given the context I think the latter works well.

minuspace

Quote from: Payne on November 25, 2013, 10:02:58 PM
Quote from: Q. G. Pennyworth on November 24, 2013, 04:53:34 AM
I'm glad people like it! I was worried it was too unpolished for sharing, might still do another version with stuff like "structure" later.

It works better without it, I think.

Structure is interesting, but lack of structure is also interesting and given the context I think the latter works well.
I am not a critic, on any level, however, my superior sortilege skills predict that the above statement is most correctly on point.

Q. G. Pennyworth

Fuck you, I'll bump my own thread if I want to!

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Mesozoic Mister Nigel

"I'm guessing it was January 2007, a meeting in Bethesda, we got a bag of bees and just started smashing them on the desk," Charles Wick said. "It was very complicated."


minuspace