Life Imitates Art?


Or is it the other way round?

More years ago than I would like to remember, I had written a sci fi story about how the Japanese were getting even with us for those atomic bombs in 1945 by selling us color TVs that leaked radiation so that all TV-watchers would become sterile.

It was kind of a nasty thought but was kind of compensation for Hiroshima, Mon Amor, the cult film of its day that painted us as the monsters of the world…

Which is an idea, by the way, that has not gone away and has received a total rebirth under the stewardship of Bush&Co and the New World Order folks…

It was kind of startling prospect in those MacLuanesque days when TV was just solidifying its grip on our free time.

But now, I’ve come up with an even worse prospect that gives me more shudders. (I have grand-kids now).

And it deals with the Chinese.

In my latest sci-fi story that I am plotting in my head, I discover that the Chinese do truly think in increments of five hundred years. Here’s the plot: The Chinese leaders decide to eliminate the World’s Superpower over time by selling us popular toys bathed in lead.

Sad to say, part of this plot background is facet.

While we don’t know the real motives of the Chinese…

It is a frightening prospect to think that we might end like the Romans whose blood lines were seriously ended through the simple expedient of using lead utensils.

Now, we discover that lead is the culprit again….

And what is worse, it is being used in profusion to finish some of our most cherished cartoon characters….

Now, that the Chinese have poisoned the blood-lines of our pets with their contaminated pet food additive, they are going to work on our children.


These people have to be the cleverest murderers in the world, killers who would even give Holmes reason to stumble….


Or, it may be none of those things.

Maybe the Chinese don’t really want to poison our progeny but don’t know any better in their persistent pursuit of profits….

It would be rather ironic that we the architects of marketing and consumerism would in the end be brought down by it by people who don’t even know they’re doing it—inhabitants of a recent stone age…

But sometimes that’s how it goes in this rapid world of change where the once great Superpower of all superpowers now exports scrap and imports manufactured goods.

Isn’t that what makes the definition of a Colony?

Anyway, you can’t be too much of a Superpower if you don’t have any more young people and that is the rub.

It’s not bad enough that we are doing a pretty good job of screwing them up right here with our steroid loaded milk and fat laden fast foods and lettuce reeking with disease germs that can destroy your insides.

Now, we have to deal with lead after thinking that this problem was put to sleep around the Dark Ages….

Oh well!.

Well, at least things can’t get any worse?

Don’t be too sure of that. Consider that the bulk of our failed trade balance increases our indebtedness to Saudi Arabia, a people who still don’t mind blowing themselves up once in awhile to prove a point and the Chinese who are told how many children they can have a live in a place where pollution is like manna from the gods…

There is something really wrong with this picture….and I’m going to look into it the moment I get back from MacDonalds and have a malt and a big Mac….

Cheers!

Les Aaron
The Armchair Curmudgeon…