The Twenties
Jan. 1st, 2020 07:54 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
fiat_knoxAs I type this, the sun is about to rise on a brand new year, and a brand new decade - the 2020s, The Twenty Twenties.
I have seen all the Great Gatsby stuff, and people saying that all men should now dress like 1920s style men, tailored suits. all of that.
How perfectly colonialist of them. How parochial.
I would rather live in the future. How about the 2220s, where the last vestiges of Christianity finally leave the Earth in peace with the death of the last Pope? How about the 2420s, where humanity finally manages to restore the surface temperatures of the Earth to a pre-Anthropogenic level, so they can revisit the surface from their orbiting complexes?
How about the 3020s, when the first self-sufficient, sustained human colonies are finally established outside the solar system?
Or how about the present - the year 2020, the year we can call The Year of Perfect Vision because it's the first time people can see through the blindness and smokescreens to see the future clearly?
Can we live in the present, and tell the people clamouring for tailored suits "Thanks, but you know, I'd rather not bring back polio, I'd rather that women and POC have the vote, and most of all I would rather not bring back Prohibition, the Tulsa Race Massacre and the Great Depression, thank you."
Gatsby is of the past. The Peaky Blinders are a mockery of the past. I don't fucking care if you think it's a good show. You don't know any different. It's television. No matter how good the food appears on the television screen, you can't eat it.
All of that stuff is of the past. Let's stay in the present, and shape the future.
And stop the nazis from bringing back the 1930s in the 2020s.
I have seen all the Great Gatsby stuff, and people saying that all men should now dress like 1920s style men, tailored suits. all of that.
How perfectly colonialist of them. How parochial.
I would rather live in the future. How about the 2220s, where the last vestiges of Christianity finally leave the Earth in peace with the death of the last Pope? How about the 2420s, where humanity finally manages to restore the surface temperatures of the Earth to a pre-Anthropogenic level, so they can revisit the surface from their orbiting complexes?
How about the 3020s, when the first self-sufficient, sustained human colonies are finally established outside the solar system?
Or how about the present - the year 2020, the year we can call The Year of Perfect Vision because it's the first time people can see through the blindness and smokescreens to see the future clearly?
Can we live in the present, and tell the people clamouring for tailored suits "Thanks, but you know, I'd rather not bring back polio, I'd rather that women and POC have the vote, and most of all I would rather not bring back Prohibition, the Tulsa Race Massacre and the Great Depression, thank you."
Gatsby is of the past. The Peaky Blinders are a mockery of the past. I don't fucking care if you think it's a good show. You don't know any different. It's television. No matter how good the food appears on the television screen, you can't eat it.
All of that stuff is of the past. Let's stay in the present, and shape the future.
And stop the nazis from bringing back the 1930s in the 2020s.
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Date: 2020-01-02 05:53 am (UTC)Let people have the Gatsby clothes styles...while digging the heels of their shoes into a white supremacist's face. What could be more fun than that?