The twin assaults on my sensibilities of the movie "The Social Network" and the continued slide towards complete political polarization in American politics may have coalesced into a silver lining of the "Next Big Thing". If this is true, it could not come a moment too soon as my beleaguered work ethic meets my desire to relocate abroad.
"The Social Network" chronicles Mark Zuckerberg's rise to become a gazillionaire as he creates (or steals the idea for, your call) Facebook. It was, indeed, the next big thing and he did become as rich as Croesus. Despite the film-makers best efforts, however, I did not identify or care about a single character in the story. But that is not germane to this entry unless I start a new blog about films and Dog knows our society needs yet another film blog.
The second tangent in this apparently meaningless entry is the ever increasing polarity in politics. I know, how could these two things possibly be related to each other. Wait for it......
Each day the good citizens of this country are confronted by emails, ads and exhortations to believe a certain way about this issue or that issue be it abortion, gun control or the third rail of politics in America, social security reform. Good people, one and all, are barraged and badgered into having a pat position, a safe fall back from which one does not waver. Discussion and compromise, much less independent thought have vanished like so many floppy discs or VHS tapes.
Everyone is busy these days and in these confusing and volatile political times, its good to know how to clearly state where one stands. It it not convenient, for example to state your political position as "Left of Marx" only to have someone questions which one (Harpo, if you must know). Regardless of whether you clearly identify yourself as a Trotsky-ite, some polite and well informed person will view that as possibly left-of-center and call you a "Liberal". OK, counter-revolutionary, maybe, but Liberal? And since when was that a bad word? Wait, I am starting to both rant and digress at the same time.
To continue: I need to get my hands on some money at the same time that my good old Capitalistic values are on the ropes and getting Tyson-ized. (Hide your ears!) What to do? The answer is simple; create the next internet craze, hope it gets to the tipping point then cash that sucker out, taking the money and running like Rush Limbaugh to an Oxycodone sale.
The problem, of course, is the idea. That is where the polarity and pop culture meet and gel.
I am going to create the "Dogma Keyboard". Using simple software to categorize subscribers, complete dogmatic positions could be generated in answer to almost any question. A new user would simply fill out a short section of personal information and based on that information a user profile would emerge which would be matched to seamless arguments, previously created, to deal with all of the most important issues of our times. The software could easily be adapted by region or state to generate voting lists, eliminating the need to research issues, listen to candidates positions or wade through the validity of endorsements. If this thing takes off, everyone is going to want a piece of it. The people who control the voting machines, Diebold (a Haliburton subsidiary, yea!!!) are not going to want to be left out in the cold. Controlling the votes after they are cast is one thing, but controlling them before people even get to the machines, now that's magic!
The Dogma Keyboard would provide additional leisure time for the masses and, more importantly, wealth for me, enough wealth to scram out of here for someplace where I never have to cross paths with CNN or Faux News again.
Now to find a few unscrupulous out of work code writers..........
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