We are shifting into a new culture
Different customs and arts
Embryos raised outside the womb
Buying a fetus in a supermarket
Perhaps carbon copies of ourselves
Breeding races of polka-dot people
With red eyes and green tongues
Producing choice babies
That harbour superior brains
Prime hearing and vision
Becoming unrivalled athletes
At a tender age.
We want science to rid us of
Human defects
We don’t want freaks in our new society
We eliminate diseases or hide them
From the public
While scientific advancement produces
More difficulties
Whether social or psychological
We want science to unburden the public
The gift of better physical health
Could be accompanied by emotional agony
And these are not science fiction fantasies anymore
But real dilemmas
We may be trapped in our future nightmare.
We are going to have to invent new politics
With new ideas and quests
We are playing with explosives
New technologies are so powerful
That they alone could abolish society
We can’t suffer governments to reign free anymore
For they own society
We crave a movement for authenticity
Not actors as politicians
For technology is a shock
To our nervous systems and our politics
It slowly destroys our roots.
People are beginning a search for a leader
A saviour to piece our world back together
A saviour like the one named Hitler
Society will never be as it once was
Because society is in error.
Future shock hits the old harder and sooner
For they breathe familiarity
They could once give good advice
Because in the past the future
Resembled what came before
Now we face a future that is similar
To neither the past nor the present
Both young and old will have to brave
The pressures of the future
As we walk blinded into darkness…..
I wrote this when I was in high school in the mid 70’s after reading Alvin Toffler’s ‘Future Shock’.
Butterfly Sand 
Well done, younger Pam. I guess we’ve carried the same flaws for a long time.
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“The more things change, the more they stay the same.”
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I was going to use that as my comment!
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Wow! We haven’t progressed in some areas as much as we thought we had! How sad. Blows my mind that you wrote this when you were in high school! When I was in high school, I thought I had achieved great heights if I managed to write a book report!! Lol.
🐾Ginger 🐾
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I guess I have been writing all my life. And I bet it was a killer report!
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I want to see the headlines when some scientist discovers the genes for a bigger heart and more empathy…
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And sooner rather than later!
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You did quite well, Pam. The line ” Both young and old will have to brave
the pressures of the future.” still holds.
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Thank you John.
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Wow! So very well done Pam. It’s scary as hell to think we are taking that path Orwell once warned us about.
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Thank you. Orwell was a visionary.
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Indeed
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Admirably done, Younger Pam!
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Thank you kind sir.
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Well written Pam, that is most certainly a future shock for what we are used to. Mind you I don’t know how I’ll look with spots or a a green tongue 😂
But I don’t think we should worry about us Pam, nature is already shuffling her cards. We may get past this virus but we are always behind the eight ball trying to catch up. The next one may not give us eighteen months to build a vaccine and just go for a balance on this planet. We can’t control ourselves so she will.
And of course can you imagine this generation trying to make do in a world where civilization has collapsed, scrounging and fighting for food. To them it will be a very strange future shock into the past indeed 😀 🙏🏽
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I believe we will survive but we are doing so much to destroy ourselves . . .
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It is obvious that you were a lot smarter in high school then I was. And a much better writer. You also apparently possessed a clarity beyond your years. I’m with Ginger. A book report was a struggle, particularly when you only read the CliffsNotes.
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hahaha. I do surprise myself!
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