He's looking for ways to break old habits of thought.
"We're stuck in a paradigm of databases," McDavid said later. "How do we jump out of our infrastructure and start conceptualizing those threats? That's very cool."
"We're stuck in a paradigm of databases," McDavid said later. "How do we jump out of our infrastructure and start conceptualizing those threats? That's very cool."
Cue the Twilight Zone music ping.
Imagine a future where American Citizens are armed and educated enough, and the nation is feared or respected enough, to not need a nanny bureaucracy filled with sycophants trying to justify their subsequent year budgetary increases...
Yeah well the stories i imagine are of the struggles between the Bilderbergers and a rough & ready underground that they still can’t get to. People who can do things and improvise whose children are snatched (& implanted with chips so they can’t escape) because they have traditional education & can function at high level while their own children are useless druggies and perverts (think Caligula et al & the barbarians ....
better plot. better movie.
Similar to a plot thread in the novel "Footfall" by Niven and Pournelle.
I’m trying to make sense of this. The Dept of Homeland Security was organized to guard the “homeland” against terrorist attacks on US soil. But the Obama administration has decided that there really isn’t a “War on Terror”, just “overseas contingency operations”.
The Beltway crowd in the DHS never was too excited about looking for terrorists, and just need “a mission they can believe in”. So they began to compile a list of “right wing extremists”, i.e., people with military backgrounds who had Ron Paul bumper stickers and don’t like gay marriage or infanticide. Unfortunately, that plan went over like a turd in a punchbowl with the “unenlightened” element of our population.
Now in its desperation, the DHS has resorted to hiring science fiction writers to suggest things to do with taxpayer money? Why doesn’t out Messiah just put the DHS out of its misery and decrease the budget deficit that he “inherited”? Comeon! How does that add to his list of “jobs saved”?
Let me guess... launched by white racists?? Probably targeted those innocent and poor arabs too.
This sounds like the whole trouble with the television show “24.”
The government has gotta stop p*ssing around with all this PC nonsense, and admit to itself and everyone else that 99.9% of all terrorists are Muslims, and start profiling and keeping watch.
It AIN’T gonna be a committee of Evil White Males, with vast wealth and secret administrative power, funding some bunch of whacked out morons from Sangala perpetrating plots within plots within plots. It’s gonna be a hundred or so young Moslem males with explosive belts blowing themselves up simultaneously at shopping malls and train stations, with a few car bombs at important highway bridges and office buildings thrown in for good measure.
You want futuristic science fiction terror conspiracy? How about this: a Muslim president born in a foreign country, who refuses to produce a bona fide birth certificate, decides to trash the economy for the next fifty years, nationalize the banks and important industries, and take the nation down the very same communist road the Soviets adopted a hundred years ago and then abandoned eighty years later in the moldy, decaying ruins of their nation.
In the process, he surrenders American sovereignty to United Nations control and convinces everyone to sleep through ther nuclear ascendancy of Iran. Israel is destroyed; the Middle East becomes a theocratic military bloc with nukes; the CIA is hobbled with several MORE layers of oversight; and USSOCOM is virtually put out of action with YET MORE accretions of pacifist nonsense added to the rules of engagement. Meanwhile, the ACLU convinces everyone that anything less than hotel-style accommodations with wide screen television and 24 hour room service is “torture.”
Nightmare? You bet.
And it’s happening right now, without the need for prediction or description at any highfalutin’ conferences of sci-fi or thriller writers. Just read the papers - with eyes OPEN.
Is there any batch of Hollywood writers who, in their wildest flights of fancy, could come up with anything remotely so outlandish and unbelievable?
Americans have less to fear from terrorists than they do from their own materialist self-indulgence, intellectual laziness, and moral laxity. And THAT is terrifying.
We have met the enemy, and he is us.