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[thestarspangledman]

[Steve's been playing 'let's catch up on seventy years of history' again, slightly augmented by that trip to Risa. By which we mean, he got to experience technology in the future. But here he is, settled down with a pile of books and looking just a tad disconsolate.]

I know it's 2012. I really do. But even here, I -- feel like I'm gonna have to turn on a radio and wait for it to warm up. Or like I could pick up a newspaper and check the next time the Dodgers are gonna play down at Ebbets. Just -- it's enough to know that what we fought for was worth it, but I've been looking at the library again; and it's ....

Let's just say this isn't the future I expected. Kinda figured -- well, hoped -- we'd get over setting differences on people because of the color of their skin, or where they're from, or because of something they can't do a damn thing about. I guess it was too much to hope for, even seventy years later. Sometimes I think that everything's changed, then I realize some things haven't, and I -- don't know how to help it. Wish I could.

Comments

ivy stop hanging out with magneto

[chlorophylliac]

Human nature doesn't change. It remains subject to the same tribalism and mistrust and fear that it always is and always has been. Why did you think it was something your species could simply 'get over'?

steve might have to dislike you on general principles if that's the case :c

[thestarspangledman]

I just figured people would learn from their mistakes, eventually. Looks like it's not exactly the case.

hey hate her for her own crazy reasons >:C

[chlorophylliac]

People might. But they die. Societies, cultures? They simply stumble from one form of xenophobia to the next and congratulate themselves on being more enlightened than their predecessors.

well he would but he doesn't know you, ivy

[thestarspangledman]

No reason to hope that can't change.

[chlorophylliac]

Even less reason to believe it will.

[thestarspangledman]

Hope and reason aren't exactly connected, sometimes.

[chlorophylliac]

Agreed. Hope in the future of humanity is the last bastion of men who can't accept their species is doomed to failure.

[scentbombed]

She's right, I'm afraid, Mr. Rogers. But there are good people within that. In my world, I was starting to see a few more as we came into the Century of the Anchovy... so maybe that's true in your 2012 as well.

[thestarspangledman]

I sure as heck hope so.

[scentbombed]

I just try to see the trees and not the forest. It might be a, you know... [Wolf thing.] Some smell better than others.

[thestarspangledman]

I usually do, too. It's just ..a little disheartening, when you think about it.