{"id":17850,"date":"2022-02-18T18:16:23","date_gmt":"2022-02-18T23:16:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/orionscoldfire.com\/?p=17850"},"modified":"2022-02-18T20:12:35","modified_gmt":"2022-02-19T01:12:35","slug":"guest-contributor-tomd-18feb2022-a-woke-thought-experiment","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/orionscoldfire.com\/index.php\/2022\/02\/18\/guest-contributor-tomd-18feb2022-a-woke-thought-experiment\/","title":{"rendered":"Guest Contributor &#8211; TomD &#8211; 18FEB2022 &#8211; A Woke Thought Experiment"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/tomd77\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow ugc\">Tom | Flickr<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/orionscoldfire.com\/index.php\/category\/guest-contributors\/guest-contributor-tomd\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">TomD<\/a><\/p>\n<p>I sometimes run a purely mental \u201cwhat if\u201d: What if I time traveled back to my 1966 Senior high school class and tried to get them to understand the future. First, I\u2019d really wow them with a few examples of 2022 technology, the phones, flat TV\u2019s, GPS, the cars, etc. But then I\u2019d say that the average vehicle costs in the mid-$40K range on average. In the-mid 60\u2019s in north Metro Atlanta, that was the cost of a far above average house, on Riverside Dr, where the current lots, if you can find one, go for the millions. The specter of a 10:1 monetary inflation would be the first clue.<\/p>\n<p>I\u2019m not sure if or how I could create the image of the dystopia that this nation has become. About a tenth of the way through the multiples of insanities, I would lose them to sheer overload and disbelief. How many statements on the order of \u201cIn the 21st Century, you can decide what sex you will be that day\u201d or \u201cPrepubescent children can be counseled to sex change surgery by school workers without parental notification.\u201d How about \u201cthe borders are unprotected, and millions are pouring into the welcoming arms of the government offering them free everything\u201d. Try offering an hour or two of that and see what sort of reception you get. Just try to explain LGBTQIA2S+. I dare you. Or the democratic party publicly embraces socialism\/communism, that they propose the elimination of police and jails, months long elections with no controls at all, the demonization of white people, that all the guaranteed constitutional rights can be eliminated at the whim of a governor or even mayor for whatever length of time they wish, the national media as a wholly owned arm of one political party.<\/p>\n<p>Even if I could, that would be terrible thing to inflict on anyone.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tom | Flickr TomD I sometimes run a purely mental \u201cwhat if\u201d: What if I time traveled back to my 1966 Senior high school class<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mi_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,1489,1730],"tags":[2816,1731,2696],"class_list":["post-17850","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-current-events","category-guest-contributors","category-guest-contributor-tomd","tag-post-america","tag-tomd","tag-woke-world"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v20.4 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Guest Contributor - TomD - 18FEB2022 - A Woke Thought Experiment - Orion&#039;s Cold Fire<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/orionscoldfire.com\/index.php\/2022\/02\/18\/guest-contributor-tomd-18feb2022-a-woke-thought-experiment\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Guest Contributor - TomD - 18FEB2022 - A Woke Thought Experiment - Orion&#039;s Cold Fire\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Tom | Flickr TomD I sometimes run a purely mental \u201cwhat if\u201d: What if I time traveled back to my 1966 Senior high school class\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/orionscoldfire.com\/index.php\/2022\/02\/18\/guest-contributor-tomd-18feb2022-a-woke-thought-experiment\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Orion&#039;s Cold Fire\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2022-02-18T23:16:23+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:modified_time\" content=\"2022-02-19T01:12:35+00:00\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"photog\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:creator\" content=\"@orionscoldfire\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:site\" content=\"@orionscoldfire\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"photog\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:label2\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data2\" content=\"2 minutes\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\/\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"Article\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/orionscoldfire.com\/index.php\/2022\/02\/18\/guest-contributor-tomd-18feb2022-a-woke-thought-experiment\/#article\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/orionscoldfire.com\/index.php\/2022\/02\/18\/guest-contributor-tomd-18feb2022-a-woke-thought-experiment\/\"},\"author\":{\"name\":\"photog\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/orionscoldfire.com\/#\/schema\/person\/d11e80f83f3825ce9fe38a5303eb64d3\"},\"headline\":\"Guest Contributor &#8211; 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