People ask me how it's consistent to tell a story in which America's leading futurist and Medal of Freedom winner (under Reagan) pronounces the USA we have known morally bankrupt and financially non-viable, and yet global imperialism, under the guise of the USA, continues on for decades thereafter, with nation-states continuing to occupy a central place in the belief systems of the collectively unconscious.
How can I say the Business Plot of FDR's day was ultimately successful, and yet still wave the flag and speak of a continuity in ethos? And is that the Cascadian flag I'm waving, or the modified East India one favored by the District? Or both? Or neither?
I'm seeing the USA as a conquered people, effectively subjugated by "the complex" president Eisenhower warned us against. It's a psychological self-subjugation that we're experiencing, wherein the word "complex" has its psychological meaning. We're straitjacketed by reflex-conditioning, media programming, keeping us slavish.
A soul-extinguishing ideology has maintained its grip on the popular imagination, leading us towards oblivion.
So in that sense, there's still a counter-culture, a resistance, a sense of an underground, a sense that a buried version of the USA is continuing to fight back, to regain lost freedoms. USA OS I call it, where OS stands for "operating system".
That particular language echos the "cosmic computer" tropes of the futurist in question, as he believed human evolution was more a result of a cosmic computation than the leadership of political ideologues.
Doesn't a belief in some cosmic pressure towards greater liberty and higher living standards (these go together) echo the Technocracy ideology?
I'd say it echos those who believe in a transcendental Zeitgeist that guides at least an intuitive minority along more promising paths.
In Quaker parlance, that's like saying I believe in God's will. Not that controversial. Humans are like neurons on a planet that's still growing a brain. We're still in a touch and go juvenile period, developing an immune system that's less inadvertently self destructive than the one we've had.
