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Mar. 8th, 2006 10:05 amI was poking through a book of bartending recipes the other day (perhaps I should have said, "pouring through a book...")
There is a drink called a "Pearl Harbor". I'm wondering if, in 50 years, there'll be a drink called a "9-11" or "al Qaeda" or something like that. There's a difference between a wartime military target like Pearl and a civilian terrorist target like the WTC, but I'm wondering if half a century will dull the visceral effect of it all.
When I was a kid, like any kid, we played Cowboys and Indians, which is essentially a game of mutual genocide. In 100 years, will kids be playing "Crips and Bloods"? Instead of Billy the Kid and Wyatt Earp, will kids be playing Tupac and B.I.G.?
Will some things ever be off limits? I remember reading a SF story a few years ago about a future football team called the Nazis. That seems to be a term that will be banned for a long time to come, yet it's been over 60 years since the fall of Berlin.
I'm not really going anywhere with this, just musing.
There is a drink called a "Pearl Harbor". I'm wondering if, in 50 years, there'll be a drink called a "9-11" or "al Qaeda" or something like that. There's a difference between a wartime military target like Pearl and a civilian terrorist target like the WTC, but I'm wondering if half a century will dull the visceral effect of it all.
When I was a kid, like any kid, we played Cowboys and Indians, which is essentially a game of mutual genocide. In 100 years, will kids be playing "Crips and Bloods"? Instead of Billy the Kid and Wyatt Earp, will kids be playing Tupac and B.I.G.?
Will some things ever be off limits? I remember reading a SF story a few years ago about a future football team called the Nazis. That seems to be a term that will be banned for a long time to come, yet it's been over 60 years since the fall of Berlin.
I'm not really going anywhere with this, just musing.
