Francis Moore's Utopia

Moore: It's time once again for Francis Moore's Utopia. I'm Francis Moore. My guests today will be debating on the future of western civilization. Representing capitalism is J. Morgan Freemont, the president of Mutual Distrust. And representing humanistic futurism is the popular children's author, Mister Suspenders. We will let our guests, in turn, outline their visions of the future and feed the details into our computer, which will render a corresponding projection of society onto the screen behind me. And let's get the discussion underway. Mister Suspenders, would you be so kind? Suspenders: Certainly. The way I see it, we can't keep going the way we're going. There's too much bullshit and not enough substance. There's too much of a gap between the rich and the poor. Our society will implode if we don't make some radical changes soon. Moore: Such as? Suspenders: We can do away with money. We can switch to a resource based economy, eliminating crime, and let machines do all the work. We can educate the population with facts instead of advertising slogans. We can choose our future leaders from the schoolyard: children with outstanding character traits such as altruism. And we can raise them for their responsibilities from an early age to ensure their integrity as leaders. We can- Moore: I'm sorry. Time's up. We've fed your suggestions into the computer and let's take a look at Mister Suspender's humanist Utopia. (Heads turn.) And my! Isn't that impressive! Why, it almost looks like a scene out of The Jetsons. Is that a flying car? We were supposed to have those by 1950. Very good. Thank you. And now it's time for your capitalist opponent's rebuttal. Mister Freemont? Freemont: Let me tell you what people want. People want money. If you take away money, they won't be happy. They'll have nothing to live for if they can't dream about getting rich and using their wealth to crush their neighbours. Moore: Surely some of us have more imagination than that. Freemont: There's no such thing as imagination, only television. And the only law is the law of nature. And the law of nature dictates that only the strong should survive. Instead of reading books, our students should be studying and copying the habits of animal predators. You want to get ahead? Stop being sheep and become lions. Yes, a whole population of lions and hawks and crocodiles and- Moore: That's quite enough, Mister Freemont. Let's take a look at how our computer has rendered the image of your Utopia. (Heads turn.) Ah. Smoking ruins. Is that a survivor under that smashed merry-go-round? Just a cat. Freemont: Is it a lion? Moore: Tabby.
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