“We remember the drills. Now we build the escape pod.”
THEY KEPT US UNDER WARHEADS —
AND CALLED IT SAFETY.
We were children of the Cold War,
told to duck under desks while men in suits measured blast radii.
They showed us mushroom clouds like bedtime stories.
They taught us to pray for peace — but never to build it.
And when the Wall came down?
They said we’d won.
But all they gave us was a new kind of leash.
THEY KNEW WE COULD HAVE HAD THIS DECADES AGO.
Solar. Hydrogen. Food from air. Power without pipelines.
It wasn’t science fiction — it was science buried.
We had the tech.
We had the plans.
We even built the prototypes.
But it didn’t fit the spreadsheet.
So they locked it away, starved it of funding, and fed us fossil dreams.