1 There's a strange trap futurologists set for us--hardly by intention I think, indeed they're first trapped in it themselves many of them:
— Dale Carrico (@dalecarrico) June 5, 2016
2 They do some foggy scene-setting, spin some facile fancy, extrapolate some parochialism, cough up a little PR jazz, or what have you…
— Dale Carrico (@dalecarrico) June 5, 2016
3 then we respond by debating the odds or due-date for its "realization," as though it were an hypothesis, technical specs, real theory,
— Dale Carrico (@dalecarrico) June 5, 2016
4 and hence susceptible to critical or technical analysis on those terms, when what futurologists are offering up is much more like…
— Dale Carrico (@dalecarrico) June 5, 2016
5 doggerel poetry, low-rent advertising, wish-fulfillment fantasies or anxiety confessions so clumsy they require no therapist to read.
— Dale Carrico (@dalecarrico) June 5, 2016
6 Hyperbolizing some qualified scientific discovery into an historical turning point or end-point, tapping into the ol' magickal archive…
— Dale Carrico (@dalecarrico) June 5, 2016
7 (fountain of youth, unbeatable weapon, love potion, genie-in-a-bottle, sorcerer's apprentice, omni-predicate, eden, apocalypse, say) then…
— Dale Carrico (@dalecarrico) June 5, 2016
8 slapping a neologism on it (super! digi! nano!) and selling it like a late-nite infomercial-cum-sermon, promising sex, youth, easy money…
— Dale Carrico (@dalecarrico) June 5, 2016
9 I agree these debased genres are of *literary* & *rhetorical* interest and futurological fandoms/sub(cult)ures of *ethnographic* interest,
— Dale Carrico (@dalecarrico) June 5, 2016
10 but to accept their given terms--as if they're matters of science, theory, public policy--disables engagement & amounts to collaboration,
— Dale Carrico (@dalecarrico) June 5, 2016
11 however eventually debunking the treatment or skeptical the analysis, to accept the proffered hand and take up the futurological dance…
— Dale Carrico (@dalecarrico) June 5, 2016
12 is always to mobilize the trap, partner in the scam, authorize the deception, and facilitate the damage done by peddlers of "The Future."
— Dale Carrico (@dalecarrico) June 5, 2016
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