Friday, December 02, 2005

MMLXXI: A Head-Start on Tomorrow's Regrets


Thanks to Quantum Time Portals™, the future is just minutes away.

Stepping on through just to bail out on some present-day entanglements?
Well, just wait and see what 66 years of unconsidered consequences might add up to.

The well-meaning heart gets to see where the road he paved leads to...
Today's dewy-eyed idealism gets a preview of the ‘fallout’ of tomorrow's appeasement.

How about that wussy speech about laying down arms in front of a sworn enemy? Yeah, it was all mushy enough to get you some tail (that was the intention, right?), but what actually happened? Those jerks overran everything, blew it all up, and laid waste to the land. Oh, but you just wanted to split the messy scene that you yourself made and go off to some utopian future! Well here you are! Guess what?!! The buds you ditched in the desert out at Burning Man got irradiated and their descendants are out for blood. The folks that were sane enough to ignore you at the time are the ones turning over in their graves while their grandkids are building robots to fend off these marauding scammers... All the while building some far-fetched Space Ark to get them off this sorry cinder of a planet that you had charred with your idle feel-good-ism masking hindsight-oblivious nihilism...

So much for good intentions...

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