We're finally here: the year 2020. No major efforts on flying cars yet. Although they might not be such a long way off, now that we know the Navy has a patent on anti-gravity technology.
Of course in Darwood & Smitty, we settle for cars that mostly just hover a few feet off the roadway using a magnetic system. (Flying on this system costs too much for the average commute.) That doesn't happen till 2030.
But what DOES happen in 2020 is that the public finally becomes aware -- as a confirmed point of common knowledge -- that aliens from throughout the solar system are here on Earth. As the book tells it:
Of course in Darwood & Smitty, we settle for cars that mostly just hover a few feet off the roadway using a magnetic system. (Flying on this system costs too much for the average commute.) That doesn't happen till 2030.
But what DOES happen in 2020 is that the public finally becomes aware -- as a confirmed point of common knowledge -- that aliens from throughout the solar system are here on Earth. As the book tells it:
When the global government took form in 2020, life from the rest of the system made itself known. Considering the technology of Earth’s planetary neighbors, you’d think the smog problem wouldn’t last. But there were precisely two problems standing in the way: the Martians, who had fits of laughter about us using oil, were mercenaries. All they liked to do was trade. And they had plenty of oil they wanted to get rid of. With our supplies starting to trickle, they were happy to feed the addiction.
But a little more grievously, the Venusians had tried presenting a magnetic grid solution for powering our vehicles. And they presented to the wrong politicians, who were in the wrong pockets and saw to it that such a thing wouldn’t happen on their watch. It took a while for the Venusians to finally understand, but when they did, it was an easy answer: give the politicians more power than oil was giving them. Let New York raise funds from every car tapping into the magnetic grid. Then the oil cats couldn’t pull their strings and — with so many funds available — New York could cut back on taxes, providing relief to the people, and still fund extra programs.
It was a nice idea. In fact, it was a great idea, and put in place by 2030. But of course the taxes weren’t lowered. The government just reached its arms out further for a kind and smothering embrace.
Of course this doesn't mean that this story is on the same timeline as ours. Everything was moving in the direction of global government for a while, but now we seem to be having a global backlash against it, so methinks we slipped away from their timeline, which leaves us to wonder: will we really learn publicly about alien life this year? 364 more days till we know for sure.
But it makes me wonder: if we finally did have hard, undeniable evidence of alien life here -- and I mean so obvious that you really could not deny it if you bothered to look -- but the media said there was no such thing ... would people continue to believe the media?
I wonder this because it seems like there are far easier things to believe than aliens that people still refuse to see because their favorite media sources deny them. Even though they are practically undeniable for anyone taking a step back and looking dispassionately at things.
2020, of course, isn't just the year we've entered. It's also in our consciousness as clear (20/20) vision, and I'd like to promote this as the year for clear vision. As a time when we can maybe step back from our biases and allow for other possibilities; allow for new information to come in and be considered. In my opinion, it's the only way to at least understand other people, which is necessary if we want to live and work together in harmony.
In fact, once we really learn to perceive the world through our hearts rather than just our brains, I believe we come to see as clearly as possible. If that sounds just philosophical, keep in mind that the heart has neurons just like the brain; I consider both of them brains. But we're so used to tapping the one in our heads, it's entirely dominant as our way of thinking. But it doesn't have to be.
If we use the brain in our head to step back and really observe things without emotion and come to understand those who are different, it also lets us begin to open ourselves to compassion ... what I would call a thinking process of the heart.
No one says we'll strengthen the heart to do our thinking overnight. But I deem it as the future of humans, and when we begin to see clearly by seeing from our hearts, then our actions will finally give meaning to the word "kind" in humankind.
RSS Feed