Pew! Pew!
Mixing sci-fi with poli-sci
Introducing the hottest genre of the summer: poli-sci-fi! Where civics, technology, and fantasy intermingle. The only problem is figuring out how to tell dystopian speculation apart from our current reality.
Let’s start with my new tee-shirt design for RAYGUN Apparel. Meet Ronald Raygun!
His superpowers include shrinking the size of government, camouflaging dementia from the public, and making opportunities for entire generations of Americans disappear without a trace.
Maybe poli-sci-fi will merit its own section in bookstores someday. But for now, this will suffice—
C’mon, guys. They’re meant as warnings, not instruction manuals.
And you don’t need a vivid imagination to guess what will happen if the predictions go unheeded—
Maybe the young bird should listen to Reagan and pull itself up by its bootstraps.
Whatever the future holds—poli-wise, sci-wise, fi-wise, or otherwise—I’m just glad that we’re in it together, friends!
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