Sanctuary California

With a little luck, legal pot, and Governor Moonbeam’s assistance all the lower-shelf type individuals that “Flyover Country” could do without will make their way to Sanctuary California.  As a matter of fact, most Red State crime problems could be solved with a bus ticket and $200 bucks for pot and munchies.  It would work.

 

Ready Player One

From the Guardian, “Spielberg’s Ready Player One – in 2045, virtual reality is everyone’s savior“.

It’s 2045 and Earth has been brought to its knees by catastrophic climate change and a worldwide energy crisis, not to mention famine, poverty, disease and war. In short, everything we presently fear has come to pass. It is the ultimate dystopian future.

That’s the premise of Ready Player One, a work of science fiction from 2011 by Ernest Cline and now a movie by Steven Spielberg. Wade Watts, the story’s protagonist, is born into a generation that feels failed by reality. The only thing making life bearable is the OASIS, a globally networked virtual reality world. Using a visor and a set of haptic-feedback gloves, Wade and millions like him enter its realm daily.