utopia

Sunday, poor Paul Krugman appeared on CNN to “face off” on climate change against….an adjunct professor of business. CNN found the foulest Dane to throw on the screen and then they kept the camera on his huge mouth only occasionally panning to  Paul’s despondent face. In today’s paper, he (PK) said he was naive when he first started writing for the NYT- in thinking that influential people change their mind in the face of evidence. Then he said Alan Greenspan’s the only one that ever admitted to being wrong and he can’t believe the house just voted against MODEST regulations on Wall Street.

Anyway, after an inconvenient truth, I wished Al Gore would get behind a beautiful movie in which the best technologies and methods already in existence form the setting…something to inspire people into the future.  The best movie I’ve seen in that regard is '”Meet the Robinsons.”

And the best comfort I had when I was in total despair one night over the fate of our planet was Carlos. He said after people are gone, the world will recover. I hope he’s right and I hope lots of animal and plant species recover with it. I also like his dream of building a sustainable village in Mexico.

ANYHOW- my ideas don’t go far in real life although I am happy JAMA published my letter hypothesizing that fewer cars per capita are one reason Brits are healthier than Americans. So that’s why I want to write a book- so my idea of how things should be are on paper even though they’ll never happen.  And just like AYN RAND- you can’t just spew your ideas when they’re big and impractical- you have to put it into a character and story that some  may enjoy.

And if nobody reads it- then it’s a little cocoon of safety, sanity, order. Clean air, walkable communities, improved group think and government. And one jumping off point is the prediction I read in the NYT…an article about Big Food vs Big Insurance. – when medical insurers finally have to cover people FOR LIFE, they’ll start caring about  long term health. Then they’ll realize there’s an opponent to health stronger than them: BIG FOOD. 

So, BIG FOOD will be the last REMNANT of today’s  cannibalistic society. And the forces of good will TAKE THEM DOWN.