The future is our oyster, suggests Tom Tomorrow, as long as we watch out for the organ harvesters and mutant slavers

Good morning, children!

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by Ken

We've been encountering a lot of grim prognosticating from worryworts like Ian Welsh and even that normally reasonable E. J. Dionne Jr. (See my post yesterday, "Can we save ourselves from ourselves? E. J. Dionne Jr. hopes so, Ian Welsh is doubtful.") Ian is projecting, "What we deserve is what's going to happen: war and revolution, famine and drought, climate change on a scale we truly don't understand." which doesn't sound like much fun, while E.J., looking at the way the Teabaggish Right now insists on misreading the Declaration of Independence and Constitution, with apocalyptically mischievous intent, warns of drawing "wrong conclusions" that lead to "remarkably foolish choices," which reads like a full Cassandra coming from him.

What a relief it is, then, to turn to that eternal optimist Tom Tomorrow and imagine future centuries looking back on our follies with mirth. As long as they keep a sharp eye peeled for those organ harvesters and mutant slavers.

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