Doublethink
The screenwriter entered a studio somewhere in California and Sat down.
I have an idea for a movie – but I want this movie made in the Mid West.
It is a thrilling eventful movie – citizens will be on the edge of their seats – theaters will fill and executives will be contented.
In fact I want to create the new Hollywood in Colorado or Ohio or Iowa.
My imagination has conjured up a State about the size of California. People know they live in an Orchard and yet everyday they curse the Oranges and the grapes they are blessed with – they strived for more – they thirsted for Champagne when they only had Pinot Grigio.
One day they opened the door ready for the drive to work from their Orange County like haven for the rich and unsatisfied.
Yet there lives were not the same – highway 72 had split the land in 2 and they were floating out towards asia on a moving landmass. Lakewood and all west of it was literally a watery island. Highway 5 is the great dividing line between the have and have nots.
What do these people do? They call in sick, avoid the bleeding obvious and retire until normality resumes.
3 months later normality resumes when a carrier pigeon beholds interesting news about their Northerly neighbour and great rival ‘San Francisco’. A festival of Water had started there now and they treated it as a Mardi Gras for swimmers and divers – yet the festival would bring bad luck to the City – their Golden Gate Bridge was melted down to pay state bills and no-one could drive now. Silicon valley – was an underwater city too full of Star Trek wannabees who code in Python and disregard personal hygiene.
Meanwhile in Iowa – the next ingenuous non aqueous pioneering nanotech wave was taking place.
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