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Future pop history myths about today

WhiteDragon25 said:
That's nothing. What about Presidents Howard T. Ackerman and and Michael Wilson?



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FUCK IT!
Let's create the American Empire's pantheon while we're at it.

Steven Armstrong: God of the Military-Industrial Complex
Micheal Wilson: God of Justice
Howard T. Ackerman: God of Anti-Communism
George Washington: God of Freedom
Columbia: Goddess of the American Way

Anyone got any other suggestions?
 
Takoe said:
FUCK IT!
Let's create the American Empire's pantheon while we're at it.

Steven Armstrong: God of the Military-Industrial Complex
Micheal Wilson: God of Justice
Howard T. Ackerman: God of Anti-Communism
George Washington: God of Freedom
Columbia: Goddess of the American Way

Anyone got any other suggestions?
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Where is Colbert? :p
 
samdamandias said:
@Memphet'ran et al. Y'all haven't read Motel of the Mysteries have you? Excellent look at the excavation of a nearly intact 2000 year old Usan tomb with all funerary fixtures, including the eternal fern, statues of Watt (god of light and companionship), the abstract guardian sculptures near the main entrance, and the elaborate game fields for the spirits of the deceased to use.
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Beat me to it. This was the first thing that came to mind.
http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/108831.Motel_of_the_Mysteries
 
Generalissimo said:
I fear current forums like our SufficientVelocity being overly romanticized in a distant future.
Putting us onto era defining pedestals like Salons of Enlightenment.
Everybody misunderstanding our conversation, fiction, and debating into us being scions of intellectual discourse.
Defining us with our best material and misinterpreting it for a golden age.
Future clubs of people literally playing us during their off hours.
Different ideologies, movements, and factions claiming themselves our legacy.
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Pictured: Posters at SufficentVelocity.com
 
I imagine that for the US, the events of the nation's founding will be reduced to "George Washington Did It". Much as all answers in Roman history were reduced to "Romulus Did It".

George Washington declared Independence, George Washington Drove the British from the Colonies, George Washington wrote the Constitution, George Washington made the Peace Treaty, George Washington founded the Navy and the Marines.

The Mythologizing of the War of Independence has already started paring out some of the lesser figures of the time. Someday, will the contributions of Franklen, Jefferson, et all eventually be eaten by the Washington myth?
 
JKuz said:
I imagine that for the US, the events of the nation's founding will be reduced to "George Washington Did It". Much as all answers in Roman history were reduced to "Romulus Did It".

George Washington declared Independence, George Washington Drove the British from the Colonies, George Washington wrote the Constitution, George Washington made the Peace Treaty, George Washington founded the Navy and the Marines.

The Mythologizing of the War of Independence has already started paring out some of the lesser figures of the time. Someday, will the contributions of Franklen, Jefferson, et all eventually be eaten by the Washington myth?
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"Washington was often considered to be divine by many ancient peoples, of course, we of an enlightened era know that such a concept is preposterous."
- High Inquisitor Finkleferd of the Church for Lucifer.
 
JKuz said:
The Mythologizing of the War of Independence has already started paring out some of the lesser figures of the time. Someday, will the contributions of Franklen, Jefferson, et all eventually be eaten by the Washington myth?
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Franklin's got his own mythos, and Adams was already complaining about Franklin and Washington when all of them were still alive.
John Adams said:
Ben Franklin did this, Ben Franklin did that, Ben Franklin did some other damn thing. Franklin smote the ground, and out sprang General Washington, fully grown and on his horse. Then Franklin electrified him with that miraculous lightning rod of his, and the three of them–Franklin, Washington, and the horse–conducted the entire War for Independence all by themselves.
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Jefferson will probably be remembered, mostly on the basis of him having a temple, er, I mean, memorial, in DC.

He'll be recognized as a lesser deity since its far less prominent and far less centrally placed than the Washington Obelisk, but still, it does ensure him a lasting place in the pantheon along with Washington and Lincoln.
 
"The Lady Liberty, her arm clad in the purest shimmering cotton held aloft the Constitution from the bosom of the Atlantic, signifying by democratic providence that I, Washington, was to carry that Constitution. THAT is why I am your President!"
 
Novus Ordo Mundi said:
So, how does Clinton, Second Bush, and Obama get remembered?
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Probably overlooked, though I secretly want a future theocratic government to take all the exaggerated claims about them seriously.

"And lo, the Antichrist reigned for 8 years until he was deposed by the temptations of the flesh. A new Antichrist came upon the throne of Yeusa and reigned for 8 years, but he was thrown into Hell by the flames of war. Yet again the Antichrist rose: and this third tyrant took the Health and Care of the people and consumed them for twice 4 years. He was undone by his gluttony."
 
1914 marks the beginning of the near cataclysmic 75 Years War in which Western Liberal Democracies, led by the United States, defeated the forces of Eastern Totalitarianism
 
"Nuclear and space technology were abandoned in the early XXIst century because of the declining mental faculties caused by computers and networked media, before nanoneurocybergenetic brain implants allowed the human race to accomplish such engineering feats again."
 
Flectarn said:
1914 marks the beginning of the near cataclysmic 75 Years War in which Western Liberal Democracies, led by the United States, defeated the forces of Eastern Totalitarianism
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Honestly, the causes of WW1 stem right back to the East India Company. The people of the distant future might well believe we had a world war since the 1600s... :o
 
xa na xa said:
"Nuclear and space technology were abandoned in the early XXIst century because of the declining mental faculties caused by computers and networked media, before nanoneurocybergenetic brain implants allowed the human race to accomplish such engineering feats again."
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I was thinking kind of the opposite, a lot of people in the future might overestimate how much the limited deployment of nuclear power today was because of technical limitations instead of cultural factors. A common pop history tech myth might be that the technology to allow really practical commercial nuclear power took something like a century or more to mature and twentieth and early twenty-first century nuclear reactors were horrifically unsafe.
 
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Memphet'ran said:
I was thinking kind of the opposite, a lot of people in the future might overestimate how much the limited deployment of nuclear power today was because of technical limitations instead of cultural factors. A common pop history tech myth might be that the technology to allow really practical commercial nuclear power took something like a century or more to mature, and twentieth/early twenty-first century nuclear reactors were horrifically unsafe.
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So will the Fukushima accident and Hiroshima/Nagasaki end up getting mixed up?
 
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