[War_ooc] Countries, timeline stuff, etc.

[John Penta]

Don't (that is, do NOT) claim countries yet. Please.

I'm going to write the timeline very bullheadedly - not that any country is
on my attack-list, but there are certain thoughts I've had over the past 48
hours that I want to explore.

Themes that have hit my radar, not really sure how I'm going to integrate
them, but this is fair warning. You may not agree with these in any way -
you may well violently disagree with how I express them (or expressing them
at all) for each country, but I'm using these as publicly-announced
guideposts.

 1. The Great Awakening - A standby from the last time that never really got
explored, it sounds odd in the wake of the Atheist Bus Campaign and other
things. But as we go through the recession, I sense on the macro-level (ie,
globally) an uptick in religious belief, with a return to traditional
values. It'll vary country by country in how it expresses itself, but it'll
show up everywhere. It doesn't -necessarily- benefit who you think it would,
either.

  2. The Long, Slow Rebound - Ignoring all the alphabet soup descriptors of
a recession, I posit that the recession takes until mid-2010 to begin to
end, and the recovery is still fragile by 2013.

  3. The Twitter society - No, I'm not going to try and figure out how
twitter will make its money. But I figure that social-networking sites will
continue to explode...with unpredictable effects on society.

  These are starter points - I doubtlessly will think up entirely new ideas
(some good, some bad, some truly strange) as I sit to do this.

I will, you may rest assured, include my share of surprises.

Update: About that timeline. Right now, I'm not at my normal computer (It's
currently broken - the AC adapter won't stay plugged in). I lost all my
notes in a hard drive crash after WAR died the first time, a quick check of
it shows.

Sigh. I want -one person- to step forward and help me with the mass of
writing that looks likely to be ahead.
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