If THE YEAR 2022 was a movie, one of the APOCALYPTIC Blockbusters released for summer audiences, by the time the JUNE 2022 scene was flashing up on the screen, at least in the movie, some smart-aleck high school kid and his nerdy best friend would have begun to figure out what the HELL IS GOING ON, and HOW THE HELL to remedy it.
Most likely by the JUNE 2022 scene in the movie, we would have met the CEO’S of at least three MEGA CORPORATIONS who cunningly assume that when SHIT HAPPENS it will not HAPPEN to them because they think that somehow their PROFITS stashed away in some OFFSHORE ACCOUNT, or their SPACESHIP, hidden in some God-forsaken mountain in Nevada or Saudi Arabia will whisk them away to some hidden SPACE STATION, serviced by some poor schnooks who will work because somehow those SCHNOOKS were promised enough money to live large.
Meanwhile, as SEVERE DROUGHTS heighten tensions between FARMERS, RANCH OWNERS, and those LEFTY Urban Dwellers, water shortages will provide even more POLITICAL folly for POLITICIANS to use as ammunition to actually NOT DO A FUCKING thing about CLIMATE CHANGE, blaming the Democrats of using Mother nature as a scapegoat. BUT real ammunition is used as a bunch of GOOD OLE’ BOYS AND GALS, decide that MILITIAS are the new LAW AND ORDER. The camera will pan to cities like Cleveland, Detroit, Pittsburgh, New York, and Philadelphia as TORNADOES reign supreme, hail falls as large as basketballs, and of course the go-to standard of chastising People of Color, retail stores will be vandalized, because in crisis we know that the paper towels toilet paper and TECH Devices will save the day. The SOUTHERN cities like Charlotte and Atlanta will be showcased as we watch those citizens melting on pavements as temperatures rise to 122 degrees, but with a bit of hope, the camera will pinpoint a church and a Preacher who says his God is listening.
All the while we will hear 1. Messiaen: Quartet for the End of Time · Scriabin: Mysterium · Berlioz: Requiem played in the background as we watch neighbor verse neighbor, family verse family for food shelter, and of course GUNS, GUNS, GUNS will become the only COMMON EXCHANGE. By June 2022, the movie THE YEAR 2022, will have been playing for 1.5 hours, and the audience is becoming weakened by despair and doom. We will flash to the original two high school kids, who pull out ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA’S stuffed in boxes left to their families by their Grandparents, along with Farmers Almanacs and Civics Books from the 1950s. The audience will know that MAYBE, just maybe there is hope on the horizon as we listen to Hoe Down, and Fan Fare For The Common Man by Aaron Copeland, BECAUSE, to make things BAD become BETTER, AMERICANA MUSIC is key. We have another 1.5 hours left in this movie, THE YEAR 2022 some of the audience is bored and leave the theater, OTHERS SIT BACK and whisper to their companions I am NERVOUS, what comes next!
