Perhaps they
should include the video for Sexy and I Know it, by LMFAO, in GetUp’s 2050
“carbon tax” time capsule. This current chart-topping hit features a bunch of
young men in their undies wiggling their tackle around, and will tell future
generations all they need to know about the value of the contemporary popular
music scene.
Also waggling
their tackle around, metaphorically speaking, are Wayne Swan, John Hewson, Bob
Brown and, er, Penny Wong, who have all agreed to “be a part of history” by
contributing their very own “letter to future generations” to be sealed in
GetUp’s time capsule to prove they “cared enough to speak up in an era when fear and
cowardice almost won the day.” You
don’t have to hang around to 2050 to imagine the earnest and unctuous words
they, and others, will have penned. The air of self-righteous smugness will no
doubt be as fresh as a daisy when the capsule is finally popped opened in the
Museum of Australian Democracy thirty nine years hence.
Time capsules cut
both ways. Although there is a faint possibility the Museum will be under water
by then, there is a far greater likelihood that the prophesiers of doom will by
2050 have been shown to have exaggerated the scientific hypothesis of human-induced
climate change in order to justify a reckless tax, and that without drastic and
economically-suicidal actions by China, the US, India and others, the Gillard
government’s carbon tax will be acknowledged as having been deceptive,
unnecessarily expensive and utterly futile.
“Well at least we
did something,” or “we thought we were doing the right thing” will be the awkward
justifications when, and if, anybody ever bothers to open GetUp’s latest
gimmick. Hopefully they include the aforementioned hit single. It might, in the
end, be less embarrassing than everything else in the capsule.
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