My ideas about the future, even in the 1950s, were so dead on that even I was amazed. If you want to know what I predicted, look around you.
Nobody ever took me seriously.
First, let me point out once again the critical difference between a real word and a capitalized word. True mercy is NEVER the same as Mercy. Capitalized Mercy comes from the Inquisition, where one is merciful for the next world by being merciless in this one.
The Truth is NEVER the truth. You censor simple truth specifically because you have the Only Truth.
It is a matter of logic. If the capitalized word meant the same thing as the real word, you wouldn’t capitalize it.
It is not exactly a shock to me that the Love Generation had an intesnity of hatred that rattlerd everybody else.
Al Capp, a “liberal New York Jew” who did the Li’l Abner cartton, said that he had made fun of the John Birch Society, the Klan and other right-wing groups for years, and had received what he thought was Hate Mail.
Then, in the 1960s, he made fun of the Love Gederation. “I never knew what real hate was,” said Capp, “It made the worst hate mail I ever got from the Klan look like an invitation to a tea party.”
Nobody can hate like a person who capitalizes Love.
The truth is simply the facts.
The Truth is ALWAYS a reason for censoring the simple truth.
So the future is simply what will be. It is totally diferent from The Future, which is how things MUST be.
When someone pronounces the Truth the one one thig you know is that it does not accord with the facts. When someone says he represents Mercy, “I am doing this for your own good,” you know to expect no mercy from him.
By the same token, the Future is never determined by what is going to happen.
I am living through my sixth Inevitable Fture, and nobody but me remembers that the other five were.
The Future is always today with more of the same. There is a very practical reason for this. In each age those in power have a huge stake in the way things are going, and anybody who says things won’t go on that way is taking the future away from those who own the present.
Those who own the present own the Future. Those who own the present NEVER have any serious relationship to what is really going to happen.
That’s where I START. Which is why my predictions are so deadly accurate.
#1 by LibAnon on 03/24/2006 - 6:13 pm
Wordism’s “arrow of time” points both ways. Just as the future and the Future are two different things, so are the past and the Past. The past is simply what happened, whereas the Past is what HAD to have happened. That’s why dozens of WW2 historians are currently in jail or in exile.
#2 by Shari on 03/24/2006 - 6:25 pm
Sometimes I think of the boy in C.S. Lewis’s the Silver Chair. When the witch of the underworld told him that there was no world outside of the cave they were in, he told her that if there wasn’t, then it was a much better make believe world than her REAL world. I feel that way about the future projected by those who “own” the present. I don’t see anything better, but I still hope to before I’m gone from here.