QuasitI heard a faint buzzing or beeping when I went outside just now. Sounded almost like a distant alarm, but not an urgent one. I found myself imagining that it was a cancer plume warning.
My mind wandered a little and started to turn it into a story. Audible area alarms whose intensity would reflect the environmental hazard of each area, such as cancer plumes and other contamination. Pretty much everywhere except the gated and guarded communities of the rich would have audible alarms at all times, varying with the intensity of exposure.
Why would there BE such alarms? Obviously through the efforts of the Democratic Party. It would be their great accomplishment of the new millennia: requiring audible warning for the public of the slow death that was being foisted on them by the ruling class. Not that this would do anything to help, but it would be the great transparency achievement of the Democratic Party on behalf of the working class.
And it would, of course, be the ONLY such achievement.
That would be the start of the story: the main character stepping outside and hearing that constant drone telling them that they were going to die, along with their community and probably their whole species. And maybe getting an email from the Democrats touting their wonderful transparency achievement and asking for money.
The problem was I couldn't really come up with anything from there. So it wasn't much of a story.
The other problem is I don't imagine the Democrats would ever actually do anything of the sort. They wouldn't do even that little for the working class.
I'm so tired of waiting for the revolution...