Through the Hooded Bridge

Part 3: The Arcology (aka. Why did all this happen?)

An Arcology is an interesting concept, some of you, like me played SimCity 2000, remember this as the ultimate achievement in the game if you can build a city to the level of creating Arcologies that can house thousands of people with all the necessary elements of industrial, commercial, and even agricultural use combined together in one structure.

I am also introducing the Triumvirs: Edwin, an elderly gay man in 60's of the Stonewall Generation, Kayla, a Middle Age Lesbian woman in her 50's of the HIV/AIDS generation, and Andy, a bisexual trans-male of the 90's. Each of them have their own stories, their own outlooks on life, and different views as they represent the greater world of this story.

Edwin is a foil to Adam, he was one of the many teens kicked out for his sexuality living on the streets of New York in the 1960's and his outlook on life is shaped both by what happened at Stonewall and the future crisis of AIDS.

Beyond that, the deep social and political questions that Edwin raises about our modern Gay Rights and what we really have achieved versus what we set out to achieve are questions few people ask among our community.

Was Gay Marriage or Non-Discrimination Rights we gained or are they merely dog treats from groups of people who pull on our leash, when they need a few more votes? Many of the laws protecting LGBT right now are interpretation laws from Courts, not real written down laws or codes of conduct that people have agreed to. In addition, all of those rights have a normal counterpart in standard society, i.e. "Traditional" marriage and anti-discrimination benefits from other groups under protection of society's leadership. In every election cycle, in every change of a seat on a Court, we stand to lose everything with the mindset of a few people.

To Edwin, our LGBT movement has become pets to a set of masters, because without them we cannot hope to survive. We also must obey them and be less "true" to our nature and conform to the nature as our masters have deemed acceptable in society.

In essence, he believes we have failed and LGBT people now live as pets, not equals, in society.

On the flip side, what he has created in this world is a nearly Liberated society. Rights of attachments are not given by laws or government, but by relationships between individuals, groups of individuals, and society in common integrated society. There are fewers prohibitions, fewer needs for compromise, it is a world of equals. Even from groups not represented, they are not forgotten nor are they taken for granted in every day life.

Normalization and Liberation play an important role in understanding characters within this story, along with their drives.

And the big reveal about the future, it is a tragedy built by human actions, we keep fighting over and over again for the same things thinking we can create new results without learning lessons from our past or ignoring them. In the 21st century, we just compound our issues of fears and bigotry; in the end, if we destry ourselves, we deserve the hell at the end of the day.

In that backdrop, what these guys have created makes a lot of sense, perhaps to shed even more light on it, I'd say I am proposing a Queer version of Trans-humanist thinking. As a society, they chose to leave the past sins of Humanity behind them, they sought to build a world together without those issues, but in order to do it, they must sacrifice their own humanity and allow the world to end as it seems destined to

I have one more important part to this story, then it is it for the first miniseries I have ever written.

I am a Sci-Fi writer, both near term and far future, the horror I write is one of the human condition and our own faults that lead to outcomes like the world you are about to see in Part 4.