“The
first step to expanding our reality is to discard the tendency to
exclude
things from possibility” - E.
E. Cummings
[taken from the transcription of Juan (John) Santos’ Presidential
Campaign Speech 2032]
Thank you. Thank you for
your time. I am glad to be here today among every one of you because each of
you embodies this great nation called America. However, why is it that inside
this room, just like this great nation, we find ourselves divided? Whether it’s
the parties of Republicans and Democrats of the past, or the new divisions of
Cybers and Naturals in front of me right now, our nation always finds itself separated
by our choices. But the time for a divided nation is over. THIS moment right
now will go down in history as the moment we make a stand…a stand to be proud
and united - to move forward for our nation and the greater good of humanity or
to choose to remain stagnant. THIS IS the moment we decide to pave the way for
a future that is prosperous, healthy, and peaceful. Change is inevitable, but
we have the strength within all of us to accept how we transform.
Accepting change can be hard. During the 1600’s a man named
Galileo brought across some revolutionary ideas that scared people because the
way they understood the world was altered overnight. When Galileo spoke about
the world revolving around the sun humanity was no longer the center of the
universe. Fast forward 300 years…a time when our nation was frightened by the
idea of integrating colored and whites in society. A brave man named Martin Luther
King Jr. gave a speech about a dream where blacks and whites can co-exist
together. These were all radical ideas during their time and those that
believed, even though they were lonely islands in a societal sea controlled by uneducated
fear - these islands were able to organize itself into a nation we are today.
Thank goodness for the organizations that keep us informed and no
longer in the “Dark Ages” of humanity. Ignorance is the monster that threatened
both Galileo and Martin Luther King Jr. Ignorance wants to rear its ugly head
once again. I’m ashamed to say that I too have been initially affected by a lack
of knowledge. When I came to America as a refugee, ignorance made me change my
name from Juan to John, to integrate myself into society. Think of how silly I felt after learning
through our media that our country is multi-linguistic. So I embrace my birth name Juan…and I feel
that word – ONE – is how we should be as a nation and a people. We should be united as ONE. (Juan Santos holds up his pointer finger and
the crowd chants ONE/Juan. After a minute the chanting dies down)
The present state of our great nation is far from what it was 25
years ago, far from what our great forefathers envisioned. Once again our
nation finds itself divided, not along racial or socio economic lines, but
along the lines of technology. Technology is not what defines us, but
merely a tool. I am a man of the people, I am a the son a refugee.
I was not rich, did not have all the benefits of growing up wealthy.
I was, no, I am a normal citizen, down to the core. While, yes I am
a Cyber, I understand what it means so live as a Natural for most of my life.
I want to represent you, the people of the nation, unified as one.
I want you all to think about your fellow citizens around you, do they
look any different than yourself? Whether you are a Cyber or a Natural, makes
no difference in the impact you can have on this nation. Understanding
what change is necessary for the betterment of the nation as a whole is most
important.
I want to reflect back to 2025, when the world was impacted by the
great catastrophe that engulfed many of our coastal cities and the crisis that
interfered with our everyday lives. Many lives changed from that day as
billions of people were displaced from their homes and their families and their
only drive was to survive. The survival of the people and of our nation was the
outcome of the great technological advances that were set in motion then and
escalating to greater bounds then we could ever imagine. It is because of the
great imaginations of our scientists that our technology has restored people’s
faith and created security among many.
I remember, myself as a refugee, and the panic that overtook my
senses thinking my life was over. I thought I was dreaming when I heard the
whirl of a private hovercraft airship that came over to where I was almost left
for dead, picked me up and quickly administered me with improved health
technologies that improved my overall well being, which is why I stand here
today to inform you that science is more than a miracle restoring my faith, but
it saved my life and including the lives of others. There was a little boy,
named Joshua, who suffered from a head concussion and in order to restore his
main facilities, his parents agreed to Joshua getting a microchip implanted
into his brain. This procedure was imperative for Joshua to have a normal life.
Little did his parents know that this procedure gave him a future as well
because our great technology enabled an Internet interface to detect his
precise location and saved him.
We still have much to do to restore our economy and the individual
freedom of our people. We saw the devastation that hit our economy due to the
loss of our many farmlands that caused an increase in food prices and shortage
of clean water supply, but through the advancement of our internet in its
transformative infrastructure within humans technology we were able to
implement support and alternative methods to helping others and helping our
nation from complete collapse. Future investments within our community into
future technological research will ease control from the federal government and
in turn increase the wealth of our nation. We have already seen the rise of our
new world through the implementations instilled from the many new high tech
firms that are focusing on improved methods of communication by linking the
whole world into one decentralized institution allowing for more freedom over
our finances as well as our health.
As our landscapes are changing it is imperative that we adopt
these motions of change and enlighten ourselves to improvements of our land and
its people. There are already many proposals waiting for your approval that
will help with the rehabilitation of our great nation through the freedom of
technology. We have already witnessed the success of the revolution of our
biotechnology and nanotechnology that has created the free market enterprise,
while eliminating the manipulations from the monetary institutions that once
took hold of our country. We still need to implement policies that will protect
our future and the future of our children within our new world. How can we
better protect our existence? Our existence depends on our very belief in
ourselves as a union of people who desire to embrace the values of our own
intelligence by improving science. We are a society that believes in growth,
opportunity, and progress.
I encourage everyone to vote and to exercise this independent
right to place faith in a better tomorrow for I believe we all contain the
power to work together and to agree on this idea for preservation of our land
as free people who believe in hope to continue our goals of rebuilding and
improving our lives for future existence.
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