Dystopia Utopia #3 Greenland

 

Dystopia Utopia #3 Greenland

If given the choice most people when choosing between a good outcome or a bad outcome for a future, will usually try and bend toward the good outcome. It’s only natural, isn’t it?

It is difficult to imagine why but if we presume most people in power in any one nation are educated and that education provides a resemblance to a traditional, cultural heritage, soaked in a historical brine of both future and past, glory and tragedy, we can predict a reasonable desire for a positive outcome.

 There are so many imaginative writings these days, not coincidentally, coinciding with scientific, political, and what some might call moral predictions of imminent disaster, decay, and divine intervention. Dystopias are everywhere now. This is the Age of Dystopia.

In days of yonder and yore, prophets, witches, soothsayers among others were constantly going about pointing out what might look like reasonable prognostications for their times, of death and despair as reality. There’s no doubt that something like the Great Plague or the burning of Rome or the sacking of ancient cities by hordes of militia, lawless infidels, would all seem to convey a sense of “the end is near”. And for many in all those circumstances, the end certainly did come very close and for many came for them and went without them.

Well, last night I watched “Greenland” another one of those disaster movies cocooned from the many other nuclear/climate disaster threats to mankind’s existence. There was a comet raining down death, fire, and destruction on the world and the hero and his family have to go from Atlanta to across the Canadian border to catch the only scheduled plane to Greenland where the USA has an underground “nuclear protected” air base that’ll protect anyone who can get there.

When I was in the Air Force, if you got sent to Greenland (Thule Air Force Base), you got sent to Hell, although it was colder than Hell obviously. So, it's surprising that given Greenlands place in the scheme of things now, in this dystopian future, it is the place to be. And I reckon that given what we know about climate change, it is a possibility that places like Greenland and Antartica may become more inhabitable, thus some different places we'll go to war over.

I'm sure that tucked away in some small room in the defence Department bowels there are already contingency plans for these new lands exposed by climate change. Good to know america is looking out for the rest of us. Ha!

I was thankful that finally that some of those city size bunkers the USA spent trillions of dollars on protecting us from a Soviet dystopian invasion finally got utilized, but it was hell getting there for the heroes of this sci-fi anti-fantasy.

I’ve been reading some other science fiction in addition to watching a couple of outer space serials on Prime and Netflix. I like to know what people are thinking is going to happen. My only concern is how most of the disasters that befall us in tv land are immediate and short-lived, mainly because American ingenuity or Western ingenuity, depending on how much we want to give credit to White Supremacy, usually finds a solution, usually through co-operation but spurred by individual heroism (we always give thanks to those who do well and are both mentally and physically equipped to handle catastrophies).

Unfortunately, the older I get the world seems more dystopical, mainly because as once a youth, I’ve seen that fighting optimistic cloud that hovers over all the reality, turn blacker and blacker as the world (and I) age.

The Past surrounding “my country tis of thee” is of more interest to me than my own history, mainly because it’s fascinating to see the constant reminders that our nation is capable of making its dressed up Past  intangible enough that most people seem to believe it’s actually reconcilable, while our own individual mistakes are forever lost in all our own memories dispersed ( for better or worse) and certainly become irredeemable in others minds. Imagine me believing that. Oh yeah, that’s what’s religion is about. Reconciliation with ourselves.

The fact that the Future always looks bleaker or brighter than the Present, depending on what side of Optimism we reside, we’re all presented with and which ones we allow into our own rhetoric, conjoined with whatever facts (about the passing of Time) we want to believe or feel depressed by.

You know those facts, like whether something (love, health, wealth) will last “forever” or will Luck, Fate, natural order of things (temporary, decomposition, degrade, change), wishful thinking will prevail.

The only thing that prevails is Death and maybe rightly so, our history has been delegated/relegated to those who live the longest, the guardians of remorse and remembrance of all things Monetary.

Dystopia depends upon which side of the gun you’re on. Natives/indigenous populations were on the wrong side of the cross, slaves on the wrong side of freedom, and innocent civilians are on the wrong side of all military interventions/war, no matter who’s doing the winning and who’s doing the losing.

Every nation state has a dystopia brewing or becoming realized. The enforcement of laws in an unequal manner are always dystopic. The Taliban, Israel, and America are three of the worst examples of dystopic realities. Of course, most Americans don’t see it that way and neither do Israeli Jews nor Taliban militias.

Why do we always believe that denial by authoritative fiat is the Truth?