Hm. Friday Five.
Mar. 21st, 2003 12:47 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
bktheirregular1. If you had the chance to meet someone you've never met, from the past or present, who would it be?
Depends on what it would be for. For the pleasure of intelligent conversation, the first name that comes to mind is Mark Twain. On the other hand, I'd love to be alone in a room with Dubya and a list of questions and no way out for him except to answer to the best of his ability...
2. If you had to live in a different century, past or future, which would it be?
I would like to see the year 2150. That's assuming there's still a human race on the planet in 2150. If we've survived that far, I have hopes for that time.
3. If you had to move anywhere else on Earth, where would it be?
If I had to? There's this island out in the Cyclades that's almost home to me.
4. If you had to be a fictional character, who would it be?
Either Han Solo (because while the Legendary Hero was off on his Quest, the guy trying to scrape his way from paycheck to paycheck managed to help save the Known Universe, win the heart of the Princess, and come out of it with his sense of snark intact), or Spenser. From the books, not the TV show or the TV movies.
5. If you had to live with having someone else's face as your own for the rest of your life, whose would it be?
Hm. Could do worse than Adam Baldwin.
Close entry.
Depends on what it would be for. For the pleasure of intelligent conversation, the first name that comes to mind is Mark Twain. On the other hand, I'd love to be alone in a room with Dubya and a list of questions and no way out for him except to answer to the best of his ability...
2. If you had to live in a different century, past or future, which would it be?
I would like to see the year 2150. That's assuming there's still a human race on the planet in 2150. If we've survived that far, I have hopes for that time.
3. If you had to move anywhere else on Earth, where would it be?
If I had to? There's this island out in the Cyclades that's almost home to me.
4. If you had to be a fictional character, who would it be?
Either Han Solo (because while the Legendary Hero was off on his Quest, the guy trying to scrape his way from paycheck to paycheck managed to help save the Known Universe, win the heart of the Princess, and come out of it with his sense of snark intact), or Spenser. From the books, not the TV show or the TV movies.
5. If you had to live with having someone else's face as your own for the rest of your life, whose would it be?
Hm. Could do worse than Adam Baldwin.
Close entry.
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Date: 2003-03-21 02:11 pm (UTC)I have a sneaking suspicion that part of it was fed by organized religions in the Western world, whose business model for many centuries was to get people to pony up the cash so that they'd get into heaven, and if the End of Days was coming, you wouldn't be so worried about leaving a better world for your children's children's children, and more worried about not burning in hellfire while your friends and the jerk who beat you up in the schoolyard when you were a kid go to the better place and spend eternity singing the praises of the Almighty.
Ahem.
I suspect that today, there's also secular worry about Armageddon, because a) there's enough hardware and materiel on the face of the planet to obliterate the ecosystem in a dozen nasty ways, from nuclear fire to just choking the life out of the planet, and b) worry that the people in charge are leading us to a point where we're gonna look down, Elmer Fudd-like, and realize that we walked off the edge of the cliff ten minutes ago and there's no way we can get back before gravity comes off its coffee break.
That's my view anyway.