Readers: this blog is set in the future (sometime after the year 2020). Each entry assumes there has been a 5th revolution in the US — the Revenge Revolution. More about the Revenge Revolution and author, Entry #1. List and general description of entries to date.
Note: most entries are formatted as conversations. Characters appear in a number of entries, with many entries building on previous conversations. Profile of characters (see link at top of page). You’ll catch on quickly. Thanks for your time and interest…and comments.
Scene: Greenie, JC and Jordan having lunch near Jordan’s office in Washington, DC
Jordan: “Greenie, glad you could break away for lunch. You can protect me from your buddy here.”
Greenie: “Now, Jordan. Yes, it’s nice to see you but when did you need protection? Has JC been harassing poor little Jordie?”
JC: “See, Jordan. You’re far too sensitive…and taking yourself way too seriously. You need to get out of Washington more often. You’re starting to act like some of those people in Congress.”
Jordan: “Alright guys. Enough kvetching. What are we going to talk about over lunch? What about…”
Greenie: “…excuse me but if you were going to suggest discussing progress on my articles on the Revenge Revolution, please don’t. I need a break.”
Jordan: “OK, then what?”
JC: “You want something far out…no pun intended.”
Jordan: “Such as…and what pun?”
JC: “Evolution.”
Greenie: “Since when did you become the scientist?”
JC: “Think about it?”
Greenie: “Think about what, Ms. Einstein?”
JC: “How could species evolve from a bunch of elements? And how did the universe get started?
Jordan: “Greenie, maybe Ms. Einstein is on to something. I’ve never really bought into the Big Bang Theory. Understand the theory but what I can’t figure out is where did the matter come from?”
JC: “See, this might be interesting. Where did all that stuff come from? Nothing just doesn’t go bang. Nothing had to be something before it went bang.”
Greenie: “So, if you need something in order to have it go bang, then who or what provided the something? Little green men? ET’s friends?”
Jordan: “Green is not my color. I like ET’s friends better. Seriously…if that’s possible with this group…I’ve always been fascinated by the number of stars. Now after the Hubble telescope, we know there are even more billions of stars and millions, if not billions of galaxies.”
JC: “And, if you believe in the tooth fairy, out of those billions and billions, earth is the only place where life exists. Right. Take another hit on that joint.”
Greenie: “How does all this link to evolution?”
JC: “Evolution, at least on earth, may not be so random. What if we’re a science experiment of one of ET’s buddies?”
Jordan: “If evolution is part of a science experiment, it explains a lot.”
Greenie: “How?”
Jordan: “We know…let me rephrase that…there appear to be more than three dimensions. We don’t know exactly how many but let’s say there are five dimensions.”
JC: “So ET’s buddies could be operating in all five dimensions while we’re operating only in three. And…”
Greenie: “…Let me try. We know time is relative. A billion years to us might be 10 years to ET. Like a gnat’s life is three days by our standards but maybe 100 years by gnat standards.”
Jordan: “Keep going.”
Greenie: “One of ET’s buddies has this experiment. And as part of that experiment there is a giant petri dish called earth. ET’s buddy puts of few drops of something in the dish and things start to grow.”
JC: “After a while some of the amoebas get bigger and eat other amoebas. Over more time other amoebas take on different shapes and new flavors of amoebas evolve.”
Jordan: “After who knows how long, the “generic man” amoeba evolves.”
Greenie: “All this seems sort of weird, doesn’t it? We’re an experiment in ET’s buddy’s petri dish.”
JC: “Weird, yes, but have you got a better explanation? Plus, who’s going believe this idea anyway?”
Jordan: “Does it really matter who believes it? Probably not. However, more people might be closer to believing it than we think. I find it very interesting that when you look at the core beliefs of a bunch of different religions, there always seems to be some ‘super-power’ of sorts at the top.”
JC: “And a belief in that ‘super-power’ makes life less complicated, right?”
Jordan: “Yes, it seems to.”
JC: “By the way, Jordan does this mean you’ve given up religion for a petri dish? Next time we have lunch are you going to order a BLT?”
Jordan: “You’re funny, JC. No, religion is still very important. At a very minimum it provides great guidelines and boundaries. And no BLT, unless its turkey bacon.”
Greenie: “Whew, beginning to wonder about you, too. C’mon, you really like turkey bacon?”
(End of discussion on evolution…at least for now.)
Gelly: “Good morning, Jordan. Have a nice 
Jordan: “Not sure what you mean. Used to be like what?”
Gelly: “Because, for the first time…and I don’t know why now rather than when I heard it years ago…for the first time I could picture my relatives on the boat coming to America.”
Gelly: “That’s too bad. What really bothers me is how the US went from a country where people wanted to come to a country where it was nearly impossible to immigrate unless you had a bunch of money or some special high-tech skill. My father had no money and no special skill. He worked his whole life as a laborer. My mother could barely speak English. Yet look at the family now.”
Jordan: “You know why. King Trump.”
Greenie: “Unfortunately, by the time the FBI took Trump out, the damage to the country was too great…and we had the Revenge Revolution.”
JC: “Think about it…and I know you realize this. The Donald was more of an enabler for the Revenge Revolution rather than the cause of the Revenge Revolution. For 20+ years before Trump, the Republicans had been moving farther and farther right. The Donald let the Republicans do a really hard-right turn.”
Greenie: “Exactly. I know you think the comment about brainwashing was tongue-in-check but I really believe many who claimed to be Republicans were brainwashed.”
Matt: “So the total was 1,000 but I guess each team earned 500…right?”
Jordan: “That’s exactly what happened. One team negotiated supposedly in good faith…and then at the last allowed negotiating session told the other team they were being bombed.”
Jordan: “After the class found out about the bombing, people no longer trusted members of the group that bombed. The change was immediate. The entire class has a casino party on Saturday night, the day after the bombing. Some members of the group that bombed staffed the casino tables – dealing cards, for example. And guess what?”
Jordan: “I can still tell you the names of the key players in the group that bombed. What’s more I can tell you their careers were not much different that their behavior in that group. I’m still friends with two of the three key guys but I would never work with them.”
Matt: “Alright, so you had an interesting exercise or even informal final exam. Now bring that exercise back to the Trump administration. You think there were parallels?”
JC: “Agreed, but the Democrats didn’t seem vicious like the Republicans.”
JC: “Republican leaders crafted the proposals to reward the very wealthy and screw the very people who voted them into office. I recall one of the Republican senators who crafted their bill in secret making the following statement, ‘Medicaid does not pay doctors enough per visit.’ Followed by ‘The proposed bill cuts Medicaid payments by hundreds of millions of dollars.’ Duh, oh wise senator, do you understand what you just said?”
Jordan: “Fortunately for them, Trump had so many other personal conflicts that affected the presidency, especially financial links to the Russians, the FBI had to take him out.”
