I used to write around 2014 or so a diary on what was then called, "the Daily Kos."
It's banned now, too subversive.
I was able to leave my body frozen until a cure was found. I'm lucky because most
of these places were ordered closed when it was discovered the concept of freezing
a body could work.
I opened my eyes and there was my 75 year old son. He was excited to see me alive
but seemed frightened as well.
"Dad it's great for a man my age to get to talk with his father." He went on to announce
he had 5 years left before he had to report to die.
'Huh?" I asked. Much had changed in our society in the last 36 years I had been
"asleep."
When CITIZENS UNITED became law when I was alive, a corporation was given the
same rights as a person. Not only could it spend any amount on candidates, ban
birth control products. It took awhile, but finally ALL methods of birth control were
considered abortion. Roe which approved abortion was overturned. It was found
a Woman gave up her rights to her body when a living human was inside her.
It didn't matter it may be one cell, THAT cell would in 9 months become a living
human being. If a person is sentenced to death, the court reasoned, that person
had a right to a trial. One cell can't speak for him or her, but the Court could.
Every 3 months medical records were to be examined to be sure the baby was
alive and growing. No reports met jail time for the woman and doctor.
Now that a corporation was to be treated as a person, it could buy as many
corporations as it wanted. In 2050, Fox owners owned ALL television networks.
Content was strictly controlled. Supreme Court long ago said it was fine to lie.
The 1st amendment gave the power as long as people were not unduly scared.
The Pat Robertson group which was founded by Rick Santorum and Michelle
Bachmann, were the group which decided what the public could watch
and what sort of movies could be made.
Logic ruled in 2050. Medical costs were handled by everyone agreeing to
report to departing stations where they would be put to death in a painless fashion.
80 was as long as you were allowed to live. Medical costs went way down.
All prisons now were held by for profit corporations. Prisoners worked for free
for whatever corporation wanted them. Even mentally ill people worked. Those to
ill to work, were put to death.
Women were allowed only to work at home, Being a motherwas treated as a serious
position. If her child got in trouble, she would go to jail as well as her child.
People trying to enter our country would need a note stating they were needed.
Getting caught trying to sneak into our country met being shot immediately. Your
age wouldn't mater.
The latter day saints, Jewish, and Southern Babtist Religions were the only
religions allowed.
Okay, I had a bad dream, I could write about what our future could be like
to fill ten diaries.
I don't think I stretched too far here. It's up to all of us to keep what was just
a dream by an old man with Parkinson's and Dementia, to become a reality.