It also seems like we’ve had our fill of Zombies and Vampires. But pop culture abhors a vacuum. So what is on the horizon for the next cool career path or lifestyle choice*.
Based on previous trends the trend will probably:
[ul]
[li]Have some element of vague mystery to it.[/li][li]Appeal to 13 year olds.[/li][li]Lend itself to parody[/li][/ul]
Some preliminary thoughts:
Eskimos - They kill polar bears. With spears. And presumably balls made of solid steel (the better to chip the polar bear’s teeth) Though I can’t imagine teenage girls debating between Nanook and Queequeq**.
Rodeo Clowns - People whose job is to get angry bulls to chase them. *** Think on that for a minute. Spending years of your life dedicated to learning how to make bulls hate you and want you to kill you. What kind of person does that? An F*&king awesome one.
Dentists- Covers the need for working with pointy steel things. Treads the mouth fetishizing ground already walked by vampires. And they do work in the same neighborhood as brains.
Accountants - Taxes are about as mysterious and occult as ninjitsu, good accountants are practically pirates anyway, and if the pen is mightier than the sword the spreadsheet is in the same league as an M1 Abrams.
*I am aware that zombification and vampirization is not so much a lifestyle choice as a deathstyle choice, but for the purpose of the thread I’ll consider it an early retirement option.
** Queequeg was not an Eskimo. But everyone know that Eskimos and Pacific Islanders fought over whales for hundreds of years. +
Everyone is wrong
*** Little known fact, the only way to become a Rodeo Clown is to be identified as such by the national career aptitude test you took sophomore year of high school. And you thought they didn’t matter.
RetroFuture is the future!
Shiny silver clothes with padded shoulders, space shoes and hats with sleek fins, big bulky ray guns with rings, clothes with rings, everything with fins and wings! Combination of The Jetsons and Space: 1999.
