This time there were so many reader requests dear to my heart. Londenio asked:
Suppose you fall into a coma. You wake up in 15 years, with your memory
and cognitive abilities intact. You hug your loved ones, you brush your
teeth and then … what would be the first thing you would like to know
about the world?
Am I allowed three questions? They would be the level of stock prices (inflation-adjusted), whether there are new countries or old countries have disappeared, and whether nuclear weapons have been used.
And what about 300 years later, from having your head frozen?
I would simply ask: "What are the three most important questions I should be asking?"
What do you all think?
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i think i’d ask for a nurse to give me a 20-minute synopsis of “the world of today”. listening VERY closely as to how much she emphasizes things like the power/importance of religion; and the same for The State.
if every other paragraph includes something like “blessed be the prophet Lady Gaga” or “thanks to our Dear Leader Khan” or some such, i believe i’d be vague as hell in answering questions, and ask for a history book and an almanac (“written in the old tongue”) before i went into any details about myself.
be a shame to wake up from a 300-year-coma and then get sent to a gulag, or burned as a witch, wouldn’t it?
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