GUESS WHO’S BACK
Why? “Because the United States currently has, as Jack Womack so succintly puts it, a president who makes Richard Nixon look like Abraham Lincoln.”
With Hunter S. Thompson also taking a kick at the dog, it’s almost as if the prophets of the past have returned to announce our doom. It’s scary out there! It seems like there’s a real possibility that the most powerful nation on the planet with be hijacked by fascists.
But hey cheer up! Let’s be optimistic about a world of endless sort-of prosperity and quasi-freedom, where the future will be pretty much like today only with way cooler stuff. Maybe capitalism is just that good. It’s called Moore’s Law, after all, not Moore’s Postulate. Everybody hop on board the Exponentiation-of-Technology Express! Woo woo! Next stop, post-humanity! We can finally break free of this tedious cycle of birth and death and awkward physicality and spend eternity zooming around the infoverse like drunken fairies.
Well not us exactly, just our computers, but whatever!