>> It hasn't. Here we are decades later, and the same shit is going on, and the Mutant Registration idea starts getting around. Sooner or later the two of them are going to have a knock-down, drag-out fight over that. And it's going to soak in that neither of their efforts have solved the problem, here they are as old men and it's all happening again. <<
The whole Nightmares of Futures Past isn't just a global war to prevent or cause a genocide. It's not about two ideologies battling for supremacy in the minds of the public. It's not even the Us versus Them plot that plays on every television in the world every day of the year-- what percentage of it's fiction or non-fiction is up to the reader's level of pessimism.
It's about the regrets one discovers decades after it's too damn late to do anything about it.
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Re: Thoughts
Date: 2014-04-19 05:05 pm (UTC)The whole Nightmares of Futures Past isn't just a global war to prevent or cause a genocide. It's not about two ideologies battling for supremacy in the minds of the public. It's not even the Us versus Them plot that plays on every television in the world every day of the year-- what percentage of it's fiction or non-fiction is up to the reader's level of pessimism.
It's about the regrets one discovers decades after it's too damn late to do anything about it.
And what the one person CHOOSES to do about it.