Charlie Brown as a 70 something post-Fall survivor. Yeah that would be him, and Snoopy alright. Most of the gang long dead. Wars plagues starvation the usual. Though I hear Linus escaped to the Pacific island strongholds. Some sort of Anarchist Dyke-Queer Dionysian alliance.
Seems some escaped the genocides in the Americas, and Europe, and set up shop on assorted archipelagos. They're a fusion powered pocket of rationality in the post toilet world.
Having forcefields dark matter rail guns, and some former US Navy Nuke armed subs helps keep the Holy Republic of Jebus, and the Trailer Army of Aryan Cannibals' away. All in all a better deal than being registered meat in the food pens of what's left of Kansas.
That's where our hero Charlie comes in. Red Kansas. Red not for it's hats, but for it prime human meat. Ol' Charlie once a darling of the literati hunts human flesh. Hey it's a job, and they let him eat a portion of his catch.
This is not the 21st century George Jetson foretold to us.
"We come upon a contention which is so astonishing that we must dwell upon it. This contention holds that what we call our civilization is largely responsible for our misery, and that we should be much happier if we gave it up and returned to primitive conditions. I call this contention astonishing because, in whatever way we may define the concept of civilization, it is a certain fact that all the things with which we seek to protect ourselves against the threats that emanate from the sources of suffering, are part of that very civilization."
ReplyDelete-Sigmund Freud "Civilization and Its Discontents"
Pretty much.
ReplyDelete“Civilized life, you know, is based on a huge number of illusions in which we all collaborate willingly. The trouble is we forget after a while that they are illusions and we are deeply shocked when reality is torn down around us.”
ReplyDelete-J. G. Ballard
Money for example.
ReplyDeleteBack when they stopped backing it with anything was the tip off.
For craps sakes,...gold silver lima beans something.
However they said from now on all the dough is backed by our good intentions.
Then we started electing insane people,...more than usual.
This showed it didn't matter who got in.
The whole thing is a sham. You put ham sandwich in the oval office, and lock the door for four years. No difference. Everything the same as our owners want.
All I know is the ice is melting oceans are rising, and the deserts expanding, and a World of Famine is on the horizon. Extrapolate all the side effects.
The story above is our best case scenario. As always,...
We are so fucked.
You've nailed it Uncle! Spot on!
DeleteCharlie gives Snoopy scraps,...ears, and toes.
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