As I consider the 20th vs. 21st century problem, I see that our centenials need realignment. In Infinite Jest, DF Wallace has the president selling the naming of years the way stadiums and venues sell their names to corporate sponsors. Dolphin Stadium is now Landshark Beer Stadium. Much of what happens in IJ occurs during the Year of The Depends Adult Undergarment, for example. So realignment is possible, if there are sponsors available.
The centuries 1901-2000 and 2001-3000 don't fit their histories. It should be 1850-1949 is one century (The Golden Age of White People) and 1950-2050 is another (The Rise of Everyone Else). In TGAWP, white people owned and disowned slaves, wiped out indigenous populations, seized 3rd world countries like fruit off trees, and even went into murderous wars to eliminate Jews and Poles and other minorities of even pretending to be white people. By the end of WWII, white people had killed so many other white people, their numbers and power were greatly reduced. The majority in the next century, 1950-2050, TREE, is the minority from TGAWP and so people of every other shade and color are ascendant. China runs the world, Arabs own the oil, a Hawaiian is president, and if you don't speak Spanish you won't get a job in Miami or LA or New York in government or retail.
This is a more natural time flow, and history using this model is more Hegelian. Thesis, Antithesis, Synthesis, all achieved by moving the begin and end numbers around. Someday a swarthy professor somewhere will outline this theory, and the world's history will be changed.
Corporate sponsors can buy the centuries. The Wall Street Journal might buy The Golden Age of White People. Nike might buy The Rise of Everyone Else.
Thursday, July 2, 2009
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