We want our old future back - A complaint

"Because the future of yesterday was so silly and exciting, the future of today has been stolen from us and replaced with the future of tomorrow. The powers that are want us to believe that powers that once were have tricked us into accepting a future that will never be. Who cares. We don't want a future that is just the present only more of it. We want a future that is our friend, like it used to be in the old days. Just because the present isn't the same as future of the past is a really stupid reason to insist that that the future of today is the future of tomorrow. We want our old future back. We are sick and tired of a future that is just as dumb as the past and present. If we have to, we will march right into the future of today and change it so that it is more like the future of the past and the powers that are won't have any better luck trying to stop us that the powers that were had trying to make the future of the past match up with the reality of the present."

I'm copystar. I live in Windsor, Ontario, Canada.

I am a GEAS volunteer at Superstructgame.org

A complaint - no choirs

“You’re listening to that AGAIN?”

I turned from my computer to face my daughter who was standing in the door. “I’m sorry. I’ll get the headphones.” To conserve energy, we only heat one or two, and only sometimes three rooms in the house. This pretty much makes headphones mandatory.

“It’s not the noise. It’s just that you have your music on repeat. At least 3 times! What is that anyway? What movie is that from?”

I sighed. My daughter thinks that all classical music comes from movie soundtracks. “Beethoven’s Symphony Number 9. His Ode to Joy. He was almost completely deaf when he composed it.”

“Hmm.” I wasn’t sure whether she was impressed by this or not. “Why are you listening to so much chorus stuff anyway? It’s all you listen to.”

“That’s choral music… I guess I just miss it. It’s something that no one is going to hear live again until Assembly12 is lifted and that just breaks my heart.”

Anna thought for a moment and then suddenly brightened, “I know! We should have an online chorus. A person could sing into the microphone and their headphones would play what everyone else online is singing!”

I shook my head. “It wouldn’t work. If you use any remote technology there will be a lag between what you sing and what you hear. Besides, you wouldn’t get the same feeling of many small voices becoming one large voice. Some things just can’t be recreated online.”

I didn’t want to end the conservation on such a depressing note.

“Hey. Come here and listen to this. You’ll like it - its called a complaints choir. My favourite is from Finland… “

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