We all merrily got into the 100th floor elevator. We became alarmed when the descent quickened and the buttons were not responding. People started screaming and the elevator breezed through the floor numbers - 59, 58, 57, 56.
For reasons which we couldn't explain, the elevator stopped abruptly at floor 30.
People got thrown around and were quite disoriented and scared. But we picked ourselves up and started to make calls on our cell phones to get help. There was an instant moment of relief and everyone felt it. We were going to get out of this thing alive.
All of a sudden, we heard some creaking sounds, like wire snapping. The air seemed to go out of the space. People looked at each other with wide buggy eyes and mouths agape.
Then, merciful lord, we went down to......
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3 comments:
It was all a puffed up fantasy. In reality America is a post-Industrial wasteland, where the dream died long ago and the news has just now arrived here. History is passing us by right before our eyes. All we make anymore is weapons.
We have to change that and apply innovation in a non military way.
Most of our inventions come from Pentagon work. Almost all professors somehow get dough from the Pentagon. The Pentagon probably disperses more money into the US economy than anything.
In spite of that I think the country has great people and amazing pockets of intelligence and genuine spirituality. So we have to blow on those embers and get it cooking.
How? How do u do this in an economy that's been gutted? In an economy that has been largely Walmartized? Masses of lo paid workers with no benefits isn't a middle class. Where do we get these "new" Industries from when almost everything can be made cheaper in Asia?
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