Thrasymachus

I started thinking about the city as the epiphenomenona of agriculture, the natural ground of political transformation (how can you gather to peacefully redress your grievances in the suburbs?), the embodiment of ideology. The city as having a physical and cultural memory. Every city, as Plato said, two cities, a city of the rich and a city of the poor, each eternally at war with the other. The city as where most of us now live. The city as slum, as mall. The city as outdated? In space?

There will be robots, and no one will do any physical labor, but instead be part of the idea-based post-industrial economy. There will also be clones, but they aren't people. Unleashed market forces will make everyone rich! Invest now!

Churches and faith-based programs will take the place of Big Government. Everyone will be an entrepreneur, in the ownership society. Security will always insure the unclean are scrubbed away.

Cars that run on hydrogen made using lots of oil, with body armor, just in case. Billboards with Jesus shooting real bullets. Soldiers everywhere. Giant highways. Big-box realtors. Constant terrorism. New! New! New! New diseases! New apocalyptic cults! New jargon based academic irrelevancies! New clothes! New bugs! New robots! New robot bugs! New robot bug diseases!

I love my Country and I believe in God. History is done, bitch. I can't wait. Can you?

I wonder if Fallujah will get to be a city of the future?

PS: In the city of the future, little dogs carry guns.