I was passing the aircraft graveyards down by DM Airforce base the other day, and when I went along the back side, I noticed that one of the older yard's fences had collapsed. There are still ancient DC3s there, along with some other museum pieces, and the fence looked like it had been down a while. I hadn't noticed that before.
It's still federal property, Nigel...Why hasn't anyone fixed it?
While I'm on the subject, half the bridges in this city are falling down. Nobody seems to care. All the revenue goes elsewhere - God knows where - and everything seems to be falling apart. Also, the whole legal district is emptying out. Most the shops on congress are just empty storefronts.
So where did everyone go? Did The Stand happen while I was sleeping or something? Did I miss all the fun? That would figure. The apocalypse finally happens, and Dok sleeps through it. Perfect.
Remember when we used to build things? When new buildings and roads went up every time you blinked? Yeah, me neither...They haven't even rebuilt the WTC, or even done a proper memorial, and don't even get me started on New Orleans. Odds are, what's left of Providence will be allowed to turn into one big mildew stain on the East coast, because we've forgotten how to DO anything. Or we're too broke, because we're busy running a few wars that don't seem to have any purpose that anyone can properly explain.
What the hell is going on?
What we thought was the american dream turned out to be the american coma.
Now there's chronic atrophy all throughout, and everyone's too busy healing one another with pills named "distraction" and "stress" to pick up their rusting hammer and nail.
Or maybe everyone just went to disneyworld finally.
Quote from: Da6s on April 05, 2010, 10:04:14 PM
Or maybe everyone just went to disneyworld finally.
This. They went to Disneyland in their very own homes, propped up in front of their TVs, where they pretend that everything is okay, and that their infrastructure, like their mortgage, isn't falling apart because it's still tottering...That is to say, the collapse won't happen because it hasn't happened. They just watch TV, listen to the Spider, and everything will be right in this best of all possible worlds.
And they try to pretend that Disneyland isn't actually a huge galloping monstrosity, an illustration of all that has gone horribly wrong in America™. They see the costumes, but not the abused employees wearing them. They see the rides, but not the maintenance shortcuts. They see the bric-a-brack in the tourist shops, but not the slaves making that crap in some horrible 3rd world sweatshop.
And when it all falls apart, the one place that won't be looted is Disneyland, because there's nothing useful there. It won't be the statue of liberty sticking out of the sand on that beach (that's a lot of bronze, after all), it will be Mickey, larger than life, fading in the sun.
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I'm hoping OP is exaggerating but i can't tell anymore.
Quote from: Regret on April 06, 2010, 12:31:36 AM
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I'm hoping OP is exaggerating but i can't tell anymore.
Nope.
Where did everyone go?
But I want to know where everyone came from. The stores are empty, paper covering their windows, but the streets are full of people. Broken people. Some sit on State Street and murmuring and feverishly licking their fingers. Some sit inside the bus terminal, cackling at an unheard joke. But there are still some whose damage is not so easily seen. Those are the ones with homes and jobs and educations, Good Stuff, that keeps the cracks plastered. But I wonder, how high are we above rock bottom? How close are we, at any given moment, to fall like Humpty Dumpty and be left alone to pick up the pieces?
You know Dok it's all just signs that humanity is headed for extinction.
Quote from: Nast on April 06, 2010, 01:07:45 AM
But I wonder, how high are we above rock bottom? How close are we, at any given moment, to fall like Humpty Dumpty and be left alone to pick up the pieces?
The human species has lived below sea level for longer than anyone here has been alive. You don't notice what you are used too.
As for picking up the pieces? You don't pick them up, you crush them into dust and move on down the road. We're all alone, even in a crowd.
This is the beginning of the end. Global warming will take care of the rest.
EVERYONE
got out. sourced.
Quote from: Out of Order on April 06, 2010, 01:59:13 AM
You know Dok it's all just signs that humanity is headed for extinction.
Quote from: BADGE OF HONOR on April 06, 2010, 02:37:19 AM
This is the beginning of the end. Global warming will take care of the rest.
Pffft, optimists.
The suffering will never stop.
Quote from: BADGE OF HONOR on April 06, 2010, 02:37:19 AM
This is the beginning of the end. Global warming will take care of the rest.
I thought every generation believes they will be the ones to see the end of days.
Quote from: Lady Grinning Soul on April 06, 2010, 02:34:49 PM
Quote from: BADGE OF HONOR on April 06, 2010, 02:37:19 AM
This is the beginning of the end. Global warming will take care of the rest.
I thought every generation believes they will be the ones to see the end of days.
I wrote something a while back addressing that very idea: http://www.principiadiscordia.com/forum/index.php?topic=20113.0
Not with a bang but a complaint.
Somewhere the zetgeist decided it'd had enough. We had spanned a continent, eating the resources along the way to fuel our expansion. the plains and forests were fed without distinction into the machine of progress so rampant that its a wonder anyone ever had a thought to preserve. We made ways and infrastructure as quick and dirty as possible. It just had to last until the next BIG FUCKING DEAL, the next turn of the industrial screw, then retool it for another method.
Rome's roads still span in places, because they were built to span for thousands of years. When they began a road, the began by going DOWN, laying gravel and stone to keep water, ice, traffic and time from destroying them. When the USA makes a road they lay a scab of asphalt or concrete over the land. Nature will scratch, heave, and shake it off with time, just another odd rock for the grass to grow between. Why? Well, we can come back net year to patch, fill, and repave, can't we? Not so easy now, and there's no local resource or concienved need to fix the raods that span our continent. The great bridges and roadways crumble into dangerous, worse than useless, but they arestill there ENOUGH to get by until...
Remember the ancients? The ones that made all that cheap shit and left? The rotting iron sticking up from the ground, the black poison stones in our corn fields, the places where the water is poison? That was them. Fuckers.
-R
I'm fine, I'm FINE, I"M FINE FINE FINE!OK! REALLY!
Why fix what already exists when you can build it NEWER? SHINIER? JUST AS TEMPORARY?
Our roads, schools, public transit, infrastructure in general should really be sponsored by fashion companies, because each given bit really only lasts about as long as your average trend season.
Soon we'll see rhinestone-encrusted trains with brand-imprinted seat upholstery. In coach, the unwashed masses will complain that they can't fit on the seats and they'll run out of breath walking to the other end of the cabin to buy a Perrier. Three months later, they will refuse to ride in the same brand of train, because that is just so last season.
this
plus crazy prepared shall be my next intermittens
and thinking a dig dug themed flyer for the Atari Militia as the cover