Fifty years ago, in 1973, the SCI-FI movie “Solyent Green” showed our parents a dystopian vision of the future – a future which had failed to reach the promised land of endless growth & eternal progress. The movie showed the brutal cutting of the narrative thread that had been unfolded for us in the maze of the modern era ever since. Now, fifty years later, we know that this thread had been cut somewhere in the late 70s. We know that the promise of progress & prosperity that was made to our parents has been broken. We know now that this promise even never was valid. We know that we have lost our way. But we and our parents keep on following the lose end of the thread and by doing so we stole our future and the future of our children. We thought we would be on a line of progression, on the fast lane of progress in modern times. But we were going nowhere. We were going in circles all the time – and today, today we are arriving in 1973.
1973: “Soylent Green” shows us the future.
2023: RWE Energy delivers on time.
Welcome to the Reset of the Real 
One reply on “The future is past now.”
True words. But what will we actually end up as? What about post-soylent green? New narratives have developed, thin threads thickening in the hands of an ever growing new society that identifies as faulty and hyper-diverse. Their discourses need to be followed closely. Or would you say that they are too late? I‘m scared we might be the best version of ourselfs, just to die out beautifully.
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