I'm not as optimistic. Perhaps, we do make it through. But seems unlikely to me it will be in our present construct. Too many forces unleashed that cannot be called back.
Mr. Rate: Would've been a bad job to take, though.
Nick Memphis: How come?
Mr. Rate: Whoever took that shot's probably dead now. That's how conspiracy works. Them boys on the grassy knoll, they were dead within three hours. Buried in the damn desert. Unmarked graves out past Terlingua.
A big a$$ barrel of crime and dysfunction. Like those families so steeped in denial somebody gets shot because the paper towel roll is empty.
Of course we’ll make it through. Recall the (mis)quote: Grub first, then politics. Pretty much humanity’s directive for thousands of years.
I'm not as optimistic. Perhaps, we do make it through. But seems unlikely to me it will be in our present construct. Too many forces unleashed that cannot be called back.
The physicists say they universe is mostly dark energy, whatever that is. The politicians are trying to prove them right.
Mr. Rate: Would've been a bad job to take, though.
Nick Memphis: How come?
Mr. Rate: Whoever took that shot's probably dead now. That's how conspiracy works. Them boys on the grassy knoll, they were dead within three hours. Buried in the damn desert. Unmarked graves out past Terlingua.
Nick Memphis: And you know this for a fact?
Mr. Rate: Still got the shovel.
That, or somethin' damn near like it, is what came to pass.
I love the title!