Sunday, October 21, 2012

Futuristic Thinking


“Someone builds an optical portal that allows you to see a vision of your own life in the future (it’s essentially a crystal ball that shows a randomly selected image of what your life will be like in twenty years). You can only see into this portal for for thirty seconds. When you finally peer into the crystal, you see yourself in a living room, two decades older than you are today. You are watching a Canadian football game and you are extremely happy. You are wearing a CFL jersey. Your chair is surrounded by books and magazines that promote the Canadian Football league, and there are CFL pennants covering your walls. You are alone in the room, but you are gleefully muttering about historical moments in Canadian football history. It becomes clear to you - that for some unknown reason - you have become obsessed with Canadian football . And this future is static and absolute; no matter what you do, this future will happen. The optical portal is never wrong. This destiny cannot be changed. The next day you are flipping through television channels and randomly come across a pre-season CFL game between the Toronto Argonauts and the Saskatchewan Roughriders. Knowing your inevitable future, do you now watch it?

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Review

“Remember when Danny Angie bit Tree Rollin’s hand in the 1984 Eastern Conference play-offs?” If you were born after 1985 you’re probably thinking “Who the hell is Danny Angie and no I don’t remember when he bit Tree Rollins?” and I understand where you’re coming from. This is a quote from the book I just finished reading, Sex, Drugs, and Cocoa Puffs. In my opinion, it was a very difficult read for someone in their teens to comprehend. The man who wrote it, Chuck Klosterman, focused on appealing to an audience who was born in the sixties. While this book had more examples that did not apply to me than ones that did, I really enjoyed it. The ideas he wrote about were applicable to my life and had a sense of humor that kept me from getting bored.