More Possible Futures [Note To Self]
Sep. 18th, 2011 06:37 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
nebris~Just last week I added this text to the intro of Part Six “One Possible Future”:
“Regarding the title of this section, this literally is just one possible future. I have at least two other 'story arcs' of how this might all play out, which I shall get to after I put this volume to bed. Plus, there Addendum B: [Tales of the Vēkkan Cults] (old link), which is pure Space Opera and also pure fun. I guarantee more of those tales shall be forthcoming.”
Here I make some notes to myself regarding those 'other possible futures'.
“Possible Future A” is of course the one that is the present Part Six: Near Future and Far Future (old links). It has a Collapse/Apocalypse type scenario a half century up the pike to make things easier for Yours Truly to depict a Transition to The Sisterhood. I admit to a certain amount of 'intellectual laziness' in that regard. I was impatient to get to it.
“Possible Future B” is one where things more or less plod on has they have been with a series of incremental positive social changes and technological innovations that get us through, and then lift us out of, our present rut. There is of course all manner of pain and horror along the way, but things do not ever totally go in the shitter. In these stories The Sisterhood is just one of many competing factions and they will depict how said competition unfolds.
“Possible Future C” is a rather bleak one. In this The Global Corporate State has established total control of a now fairly well blighted world. The Sisterhood has been largely crushed and driven underground. It has become a full blown religious terrorist organization. It mostly operates in the cracks between the various Corporate Factions. These stories will obviously be of the classic Dystopian variety and will examine how the Right Minded can become Monsters when relentlessly oppressed.
“Possible Future D” is very similar to A, but with significant variations. The major variation is that these stories are centered around a non-Sister character and therefor told from the outside of The Sisterhood. That main character is Deputy Chief Inspector Auda Abu Tayi Hong-Yang, head of Special Section of the Greater Nairobi Metroplex Police, the capital of a very 'Sinoised' African Federation. In this world the AF and The Sisterhood are two of the three principal world powers and have an ambiguous relationship because, while they fundamentally disagree on many things, the third world power is an essentially psychotic state that threatens both of them. This is where my love of Crime Drama has taken hold of me.
Until I started with this Note To Self I had forgotten all about DCI Hong-Yang ['Tai' to his friends and family]. I have rather extensive notes on that universe too. And all this once again reminds me that I have no worries about running out of material.
So, there you have it, the Possible Futures I have in various stages of cooking...so far. Which also reminds me that I have to dig out the CD for my voice activated software so it can be installed on this comp. Goddess know I'm fucked if I have to stick with pure typing.
As to which of these are the most likely? Hmmm...I'd probably go with something between B and C simply because my reasonable mind says that is the type of world we're most probably looking at. And one wonders why I struggle with depression. *smirk*
“Regarding the title of this section, this literally is just one possible future. I have at least two other 'story arcs' of how this might all play out, which I shall get to after I put this volume to bed. Plus, there Addendum B: [Tales of the Vēkkan Cults] (old link), which is pure Space Opera and also pure fun. I guarantee more of those tales shall be forthcoming.”
Here I make some notes to myself regarding those 'other possible futures'.
“Possible Future A” is of course the one that is the present Part Six: Near Future and Far Future (old links). It has a Collapse/Apocalypse type scenario a half century up the pike to make things easier for Yours Truly to depict a Transition to The Sisterhood. I admit to a certain amount of 'intellectual laziness' in that regard. I was impatient to get to it.
“Possible Future B” is one where things more or less plod on has they have been with a series of incremental positive social changes and technological innovations that get us through, and then lift us out of, our present rut. There is of course all manner of pain and horror along the way, but things do not ever totally go in the shitter. In these stories The Sisterhood is just one of many competing factions and they will depict how said competition unfolds.
“Possible Future C” is a rather bleak one. In this The Global Corporate State has established total control of a now fairly well blighted world. The Sisterhood has been largely crushed and driven underground. It has become a full blown religious terrorist organization. It mostly operates in the cracks between the various Corporate Factions. These stories will obviously be of the classic Dystopian variety and will examine how the Right Minded can become Monsters when relentlessly oppressed.
“Possible Future D” is very similar to A, but with significant variations. The major variation is that these stories are centered around a non-Sister character and therefor told from the outside of The Sisterhood. That main character is Deputy Chief Inspector Auda Abu Tayi Hong-Yang, head of Special Section of the Greater Nairobi Metroplex Police, the capital of a very 'Sinoised' African Federation. In this world the AF and The Sisterhood are two of the three principal world powers and have an ambiguous relationship because, while they fundamentally disagree on many things, the third world power is an essentially psychotic state that threatens both of them. This is where my love of Crime Drama has taken hold of me.
Until I started with this Note To Self I had forgotten all about DCI Hong-Yang ['Tai' to his friends and family]. I have rather extensive notes on that universe too. And all this once again reminds me that I have no worries about running out of material.
So, there you have it, the Possible Futures I have in various stages of cooking...so far. Which also reminds me that I have to dig out the CD for my voice activated software so it can be installed on this comp. Goddess know I'm fucked if I have to stick with pure typing.
As to which of these are the most likely? Hmmm...I'd probably go with something between B and C simply because my reasonable mind says that is the type of world we're most probably looking at. And one wonders why I struggle with depression. *smirk*
Re: Possible outcomes B and C
Date: 2011-09-19 04:39 am (UTC)I think at the top of the list should be that there be term limits for every level of elected officials. Career politicians have done little for the people they are supposed to be serving.
Jefferson would be weeping if he saw the travesty this country has become.
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Date: 2011-09-21 05:38 pm (UTC)~M~