Remember when we were all really stupid? A future Earth Day celebration

Maybe not too far into the future, we would celebrate Earth Day by making fun of all the things we did before we got smart and I’m counting on the fact that we get smart pretty fast.

I would call this special Earth Day event in my future:
Remember When We Were All Really Stupid? and it would be a series of images and taglines, all over YouTube, Facebook, MySpace (and whatever thing we invent in the future so we can talk to strangers “safely”). Oh, and it would be a big celebrity thing too. Of course, it would also be plastered all over interstellar highways, and the sides of whatever buildings we have at that time, and it would also be in those postcard racks in nightclub toilet stalls.

Each PSA would highlight a different stupid thing we thought was the truth at one time, so on that day the future, we could all have a good healthy laugh. Hopefully somebody would be around to enjoy it.

Please submit your own ideas because I’d love to see them and post them in one big list someday. This list should be, like pages long, but for now…

Earth Day 2009
Draft 1:
Remember when we were all really stupid and believed that…

… everything is disposable, so long as it doesn’t end up on my front lawn?…new is always better and old is never good?… gender, sexuality or skin color determines our fate and how we are treated in the world?… violence is inevitable and cooperation is unnatural?…god is a big guy with a white beard who looks down from a cloud and watches you have sex?… you can do anything you want with and to anyone who is smaller, weaker or poorer than you are?…it’s okay to pollute drinking water with pharmaceutical waste materials as long as no one finds out?…smoking was good for you because doctors did it in your hospital room?…men have a god-given right to beat up their wives and children?…poetry means it must rhyme… what isn’t seen with the naked eye does NOT exist (except for my internet connection which I can’t see but mysteriously escapes this theory)…

To those of you who believe that things never change, please enjoy your life. To the rest of you, who knows where thought may lead us? Looks like we’ve changed our own minds a few times so far…