The Scandinavian Oscars.
Alfred Nobel's strategy to alleviate guilty demerits (the side effects of capital excess) was genius. Remorse is healthy, after all, nations that don't suffer it are psychopathic. But nothing says restorative justice more than a cash prize. Oslo, concerned with its world image, cannot afford to make the wrong choice: experimentation is out of the question.
Old school colonialism seems tame compared to the new global age of Kleptomania (the new global Vikings in concept). Authorized representatives speed in, load up, and speed back home again. This is not simply a conflict between nations: resources are being lifted and solidified from within borders too. Even our languages are being "copy protected", one word at a time, by an increasingly dubious and self-destructive system of deed-granting. Science, health, technology, music, art and poetry are held for ransom by by gun, axe and C&D letters. Our imaginations are trained towards fiscal goals and our stolen cosmologies are sold back to us.The new global Vikings do not acknowledge time, distance or borders: but everyone knows who is inside and who is outside. There are no secrets, but there are fronts to maintain.
We must usurp the language of sci-fi as our future alternative. Captain Jean-Luc Picard quoted Moby Dick in his battle against half-human androids: "And he piled upon the whale's white hump, the sum of all the rage and hate felt by his whole race. If his chest had been a cannon, he would have shot his heart upon it."
Heroes' Mohinder Suresh discussed human narcissism: "We have colonized the four corners of our tiny planet. But we are not the pinnacle of so-called evolution. That honor belongs to the lowly cockroach. Capable of living for months without food. Remaining alive headless for weeks at a time. Resistant to radiation. If God has indeed created himself in his own image, then I submit to you that God is a cockroach."
If we are thus truly on our own, no god, state or institution with us, then we are free to start dreaming again.
Editors: Aeron Bergman and Alejandra Salinas
Thanks to all the artists, poets and writers who contributed works.
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