The Future
Jun. 8th, 2002 07:50 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
andrewduckerI thought back to 1978... If I had been so obsessed with the future, why hadn't I planned it better?
Why hadn't I started saving money?
Why hadn't I planned my finances and my college career?
Answer: Because I didn't think there was any need to.
Somewhere the seed of fatalism had been planted in my young mind.
The Future wasn't something I would have to plan or build or work for. I believed the Future was going to be created for me by benevolent corporations...
All I had to do was stay alive long enough to inhabit it.
At the appointed time, They would "lift the curtains" and invite us all into the Future that they had made ready for us. We'd all be welcome; the Future, by its very nature, was cheerful and inclusive.
In the meantime, while they were getting it all ready, the corporations would allow us to experience the Future in short, controlled bursts, such as the World's Fair Expo, or Disney World's Tommorowland....
It simply never occurred to me that I would be denied anything I wanted or needed....
Sure, it was all funny in retrospect, and I felt a gratifying sense of liberation in uprooting these delusions from my mind...
None of which changed the fact that I was broke...
The Guy I Almost Was
Why hadn't I started saving money?
Why hadn't I planned my finances and my college career?
Answer: Because I didn't think there was any need to.
Somewhere the seed of fatalism had been planted in my young mind.
The Future wasn't something I would have to plan or build or work for. I believed the Future was going to be created for me by benevolent corporations...
All I had to do was stay alive long enough to inhabit it.
At the appointed time, They would "lift the curtains" and invite us all into the Future that they had made ready for us. We'd all be welcome; the Future, by its very nature, was cheerful and inclusive.
In the meantime, while they were getting it all ready, the corporations would allow us to experience the Future in short, controlled bursts, such as the World's Fair Expo, or Disney World's Tommorowland....
It simply never occurred to me that I would be denied anything I wanted or needed....
Sure, it was all funny in retrospect, and I felt a gratifying sense of liberation in uprooting these delusions from my mind...
None of which changed the fact that I was broke...
The Guy I Almost Was
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Date: 2002-06-08 06:13 pm (UTC)