Satire!+In+the+Form+of+an+Essay

=__A Satirical Future__= On August 28th, 2005, Hurricane Katrina reached the Gulf Coast of the United States; what was delivered afterwards was devastating. Noting this destruction, the world watched the United States loose its coastal infrastructure. Many watched in horror, while the remaining few watched with glee. The North Korean terrorist group P–––– was one of the groups who looked upon the American destruction via Hurricane Katrina as a godsend, believing that it’s what the Americans deserve. Americans heard of rumored (eventually fact) threats from unidentified sources that the Koreans were to initiate a plan that would result in the control of the United States’ weather.

Fearing this, Americans quickly developed a plan that included a system of underground tunnels, roads, houses, transportation systems, etc., which would eventually develop into an underground nation; all this in attempt to prevent serious terrorist attacks as well as structural damage from natural disasters.

The system was finished in the 2030's, with people moving into the underground housing units immediately. Unemployment significantly decreased, and crime was reduced. The system entails titanium outer walls with the interior consisting of concrete and bricks. Lights offered the brightness close to that of the sun’s; heat, air conditioning, lights, and other electricity were powered by hydroelectric power, which was created using turbines under the gulf tides.

Perhaps unintentionally, the United States had created a seemingly perfect society. As people migrated into the underground, commonly called the System at the time, more people believed that it could be a permanent system. The system reached to Canada, and the United Kingdom followed.

By 2079, the entire country was linked by underground tunnels. Nearly all cities, urban and rural, had underground cities. New Orleans, the starting core and the technological center for underground advancement, became the largest underground metropolis. For decades, the country was happy – there was no crime (except for the occasional pickpocket), and no sadness. Everything was perfect, everybody was happy.

The North Koreans however had other plans. The only communist nation left in the world, North Korea felt it was its obligation to take over the world – they felt that America’s pseudo-perfection was the perfect vise to destroy the world. The world at this time was unofficially controlled by the Americans. The North Koreans soon successfully developed a weather control device.

On June 6, 2150, the Americans had been fully transferred to a utopian mindset, where they had feared nothing, for they believed nothing bad could happen. All had money, nobody was homeless, and crime had been officially omitted from the dictionary. The Koreans had known that this was the opportunistic time to strike the Americans – when they were the most vulnerable.

The Korean government employed the terrorist group P–––– in order to deploy the weather control device upon the American nation at its center – New Orleans. The terrorist group deployed three bombs at the entrance of the titanium door that sealed the System shut semi-indefinitely. At that point, the group deployed their government’s weather control device. In doing so, rain clouds formed. People emerged from the exit, dazed and confused. They felt the wetness of water fall to their faces, and soon enough, panic ensued. External loudspeakers had alerted the System’s citizens to return home, and all would be well.

Lake Ponchartrain had flooded and ravaged the city. Like a flood plain, lower parts of the city had suck, and very quickly, water begins to flood the System. At one inch of flooding, panic had reached a height never witnessed since the very early 2000’s. Lights burst, and because of this, violence erupted. The citizens of the System had gone anarchic and order cascaded down the river of evil. Looting ensued – mostly for sponges. When the sponges ran out in every store around the country, the people turn towards murder to get the sponges many were hoarding in their basements.

Within four days (all of which had no sponges), the population of the United States had completely butchered itself. Nobody lived in the confines of the United States after the great flooding. The world lost its leader, and all the rest of the countries could do was conform to the Communists, which they did. The world became completely Communist in 2175, and the world was completely at peace; each home was accompanied with a full and complete stock of extra-absorbant sponges.

Critics of the System however felt that a much cost-efficient way could be used to defeat the threat of damage via natural disasters. Flooding of metropolises can be controlled by a series of dams, dikes, man-made rivers, aquaducts, and levees, all of which could be used to harness the full potential of water's power, by means of hydroelectric technology. This new energy could then power facilities that research meterology, with respect to tectonic plates, tsunamis, tornados, snow storms, floods, wind chill, etc., all of which would increase knowledge of when said disasters are likely to occur. If the above measures fail to protect the people they once served, panic will ensue, and our defenses would show immensely. Repair and maintenance of these facilities would cost money way beyond that of the System.

to happen //again//?
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