PhosphorusDecree wrote:
Humanity's progress to the stars is brutally interrupted in 2057 when the Iamaparakeet Space Elevator collapses, flaying the Earth's equator with 275 million tons of industrial diamond and causing the deaths of billions. In the long, dark centuries that follow, on more than one occasion a dirt-poor mining community strikes diamond and briefly becomes insanely rich, before swamping the market leading to global economic collapse.
I wish British tabloid newspapers were suddenly full of calm, well-considered and actually-fact-checked stories that promote empathy and understanding instead of ignorance and hatred.
The British people devoid of their tabloid fix, turn to the U.S. based national enquirer which with improved market share and resources blackmails prominent leaders of world governments into eliminating all other tabloids.
I wish I was a dragon sleeping under a mountain of gold.
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"Ignorance may be bliss, but knowledge is power."