IN THE WORLD OF TOMORROW:
Everyone will try to get on TV
and they will get on TV
in a show on TV
about them trying to get on TV.
IN THE WORLD OF TOMORROW:
People who are overweight by 120 pounds
will repeatedly spend 120 pounds
in failed attempts to lose 120 pounds.
IN THE WORLD OF TOMORROW:
People will avoid getting old
by acting like they are young
and end up seeming older.
IN THE WORLD OF TOMORROW:
We will use shops for parks
and parks for car parks.
IN THE WORLD OF TOMORROW:
A dog will bark at a postman
so the postman will sue the dog’s owner
and then the dog’s owner will sue the dog.
IN THE WORLD OF TOMORROW:
A nation of child killers
will condemn another nation for child killing
and they will go to war
and kill more children.
IN THE WORLD OF TOMORROW:
Everyone will worry that there will be no tomorrow
but there will be a tomorrow
and everyone will worry more than they did the day before.
IN THE WORLD OF TOMORROW:
We’ll give kids lots of toys
and then resent them for having too many toys
and kids who never had any toys
will spend all day making the toys.
IN THE WORLD OF TOMORROW:
Everyone will have their say
but no one will have anything to say
except for what they’ve been told.
IN THE WORLD OF TOMORROW:
Everyone will drive cars
and spend most of their lives in cars
driving to and from work
to pay for their cars.
IN THE WORLD OF TOMORROW:
Everyone will own a house
that belongs to someone else
who owns lots of houses
that belong to someone else.
IN THE WORLD OF TOMORROW:
Everyone will have lots of money
because everyone will owe lots of money
but no one will have enough money to pay the money back.
IN THE WORLD OF TOMORROW:
People will belong nowhere
and nowhere will belong to people.
IN THE WORLD OF TOMORROW:
The great void will spill forth
and eat up all matter
and replace it with antimatter
and no one will even notice
that there’s anything the matter.
And that is how it will be. And that is how it is. Today and every day, IN THE WORLD OF TOMORROW.
6 comments:
Getting very close to a prayer there. Amen.
If you have seen further than others Fugger, it's because you're wearing their glasses. Your visions are dystopian and correct. Same again tomorrow please
Well I mean...the thing about it is..we don’t all have the same tomorrow! Some people haven’t even made it to our yesterday! Somebody said the past is a foreign country, they do things differently there. Michael Hordern said it in that film. You could say that about the future couldn’t you? I mean...you take a foreign country, a proper foreign country..like Israel. I’ve never been to Israel. It’s one of them funny places, out of the way and a bit out of the ordinary. Like Russia or Greece. Speaking of Russia. I was at a wedding recently in Basildon and I got thinking about Russia. I mean..I was having a sit down after a dance and that song came on - He’s a Sharp Dressed Man - you know it. And I sat there thinking, this is an old one. It must be 30 years ago. A great song - no question, but OLD. Then I thought, even today the Russians couldn’t come up with something this good. That’s how far behind they are!! I mean..I don’t know what’s going on there musically at the moment but if there was something worth hearing it would have surely got out. Go on..you name me three things the Russians have done in the last hundred years that don’t include vodka and fur hats. You can’t. But ask yourself the same question about America. There’s all sorts! Think about it. You get up in the morning, that’s an alarm clock. Alright its made in China but they didn’t think it up the yanks did! There’s computers, the internet and all sorts. Then look at Russia. They’ve been to the moon a few times but not LATELY as far as I know. Sky probably have more rockets up there. Not to be down on Russia but you’d think they’d have more going on
That's a dystopian prayer from the 1939 World's Fair in the U.S.A.
It was first said by this big fella:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T35A3g_GvSg&feature=related
As for Russia:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mgjNq-Y8NGk
OK, they got some help from the Finnish but let's see the yanks do something that is as utterly fantastic.
Yep the Russians beat Elektro on every count... that's the most boring robot EVER.
As for the Russians, really there's something for everyone in this particular number. I particularly like the way the guys with the funky mullets are wearing shoes that match their hair. Now that's a style statement if ever there was one.
The Leningrad Cowboys are a very fashionable bunch. The robot thought he was aa great fella but he's standing alone in a warehouse now, covered in a sheeet of tarpaulin and having a cry. He's dying for a cigarette too.
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