The Tesla Un-Coil Scenario – what would you do?

Imagine this:

You’re working at your computer which is right by the projector on which is playing some sort of action packed movie with bullets flying and shrapnel whizzing through the movie set atmosphere, all conducted through your state-of-the-art surround sound system communicating wirelessly via Bluetooth. Your fridge has just told you the milk has gone bad and added it to your shopping list which is automatically synced to your smart phone. Your smart phone is programmed by the hour to remind you what course of action you have planned for yourself for the day. ‘Ding’, uh oh, you have a lunch date that you forgot about and you’re going to be late, so you tell your phone to message your date that you’ll be late. You jump in your car and program it to your destination which will guide you every step of the way, red light cameras and road blocks all accounted for as the system automatically syncs every time you hit the start engine button on your whirring electric vehicle.

This is the world we live in today and many of us live like this or aspects of this scene are part of our daily routines. Sometimes I think that the technology we use today is quite outdated, perhaps it’s only because it hasn’t been made cheap enough to be available to the masses yet. Then I realise how much technology has rapidly grown since I was but a wee whipper snapper and how much technology I’m unaware of here in Australia. Have you ever thought how you would handle your life should the power coldly and bluntly just, go out? I don’t mean for a couple of hours, I mean for an extended period, weeks, months, years.

Have you ever thought about how you’d handle such a situation? Where would you get your food, where would you get your water, your warmth or your cooling. How would you contact people that you rely on daily, how would you get your medicine, could you physically defend yourself and would you be mentally sound for losing most of what you’re dependent on, the necessities and comforts.

I gather the streets would eventually become apocalyptic, stores ravaged, houses pilfered, cars stolen and hoarded. We would all become wild rabid animals whose ground level survival instincts take over, a self-executed fallout would steep the streets and pulse through every shadow hooded nook. Everyone’s lives as they knew it would be levelled like the aftermath of an atomic explosion and electronic finances would stand for naught. The numbers on our screens that have been constantly changing on a second to micro-second basis that never actually held any tangible substance would still mean only that, but even less! I don’t think this will ever happen in any sense of permanency, but should this veil of undemocratic animalism play out, how do you think it would happen? I prefer to think majority of us would scramble together to support and rebuild, I realise that is nothing but a naive wish. As soon as one person takes advantage of a weakness, everyone would join the pillage fest driven by the dreaded anxiety permeated fomo. Would you go in hiding and run solo left to scavenge the remains of the opportunists or would you become the blazing plunderer taking stocks from all sources with no man your obstacle. Maybe you’d band together and build a super posy with specifically advantageous attributed individuals to contribute to your survival pool.

I allow the scenario to cross my mind every now and then, just to keep in check how reliant I am on the electrically funded tech tools and how unforeseeably important it is to connect with the fundamentals of nature to find freedom in self-sufficiency. I question the fact if it wasn’t for super humans like the current cohesive genius, Nikola Tesla, would we be closer to the way of the river powered stone mill and therefore putting a plug in the progression of evolution. Or perhaps we’d be living on a different source of energy like gravity powered lights – that’s a thing – or inertia powered vehicles. Maybe we are behind the eight ball and if Tesla’s work was fully explored and shared we would be millennia ahead of where we are today. It is in musings like these, I found myself inspired to paint this electric epochal being himself, Nikola Tesla:

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** Made of electric stuff

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