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valarltdEC wanted a prologue to Glad Hands.
I feel all preachy.
It was the Lakota who started it. Of course.
In the nineteenth century, the Lakota took the Ghost Dance, a Ute ritual designed to bring prosperity through peace, and put a new interpretation on it. U.S. Soldiers killed Sitting Bull because he would not stop his people from trying to dance away the white man and all his works.
So, when certain Lakota leaders announced in December of 2007 that they had endured far too many broken treaties and that the United States no longer had any claim on their territory, the way was opened for the Dis-Unification.
When the Mid-east oil stopped flowing, three hundred million people realized they were in a country far too large to sustain itself in the way it had grown. Cities starved as crops rotted in the fields. Farmers struggled to harvest what they could, using horse and muscle power and the occasional biodiesel or alcohol engine.
In time, things resumed normalcy of a sort.
Texas, who always claimed they still had a secession clause written into the constitution, took Oklahoma along for the ride and formed Lone Star.
Neo-confederates, states-rights fanatics, dominionist theocrats and others revived the old Confederacy, the South rising again as they had always claimed it would. And the Bonny Blue Flag flew once more over Birmingham.
The middle of the country retreated into the past, patterning itself off of the media of the middle of the twentieth century. Bucolic small towns and thriving farms were all visitors to Heartland saw.
The northeast still called itself the United States, and stretched from Maine to Indiana, being in a perpetual border dispute with Heartland over Illinois.
The California Conglomorate and the newly formed Azteca kept close ties with Mexico, while Deseret cut itself off from non-believers after a new revelation.
In Pacifica, tankers of Bering Strait oil still docked, but not as fuel. The petrochemicals were limited to industrial and manufacturing use.
Biodiesel no longer came from precious food crops, but rather from industrial grade hemp. Eighteen-wheelers, in greatly reduced numbers, carried goods once more over Eisenhower's international highway system. But the breed of man behind the wheel never changed. Not since the days when he turned in his mule-team for a Cat under the hood.
I feel all preachy.
It was the Lakota who started it. Of course.
In the nineteenth century, the Lakota took the Ghost Dance, a Ute ritual designed to bring prosperity through peace, and put a new interpretation on it. U.S. Soldiers killed Sitting Bull because he would not stop his people from trying to dance away the white man and all his works.
So, when certain Lakota leaders announced in December of 2007 that they had endured far too many broken treaties and that the United States no longer had any claim on their territory, the way was opened for the Dis-Unification.
When the Mid-east oil stopped flowing, three hundred million people realized they were in a country far too large to sustain itself in the way it had grown. Cities starved as crops rotted in the fields. Farmers struggled to harvest what they could, using horse and muscle power and the occasional biodiesel or alcohol engine.
In time, things resumed normalcy of a sort.
Texas, who always claimed they still had a secession clause written into the constitution, took Oklahoma along for the ride and formed Lone Star.
Neo-confederates, states-rights fanatics, dominionist theocrats and others revived the old Confederacy, the South rising again as they had always claimed it would. And the Bonny Blue Flag flew once more over Birmingham.
The middle of the country retreated into the past, patterning itself off of the media of the middle of the twentieth century. Bucolic small towns and thriving farms were all visitors to Heartland saw.
The northeast still called itself the United States, and stretched from Maine to Indiana, being in a perpetual border dispute with Heartland over Illinois.
The California Conglomorate and the newly formed Azteca kept close ties with Mexico, while Deseret cut itself off from non-believers after a new revelation.
In Pacifica, tankers of Bering Strait oil still docked, but not as fuel. The petrochemicals were limited to industrial and manufacturing use.
Biodiesel no longer came from precious food crops, but rather from industrial grade hemp. Eighteen-wheelers, in greatly reduced numbers, carried goods once more over Eisenhower's international highway system. But the breed of man behind the wheel never changed. Not since the days when he turned in his mule-team for a Cat under the hood.
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Date: 2008-01-01 01:03 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2008-01-01 05:09 am (UTC)I realize not everyone keeps a US map in their heads, so part of why I put this out is for people who don't to tell me what needs clarifying.