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... major transformation to the sons of humanity. O.K., somewhat off the subject of comics: I touched on this a bit�earlier, but I�m sure everyone has noted how much the theme of the�millennium has run in and out of your work over the past couple of�years. Yeah. If someone were to force you at gunpoint to make predictions� Mm-hm? �what would you say the next four or five years hold for the human�race? For the human race? Wonder! That�s a big question. Yeah, I think it�s full of wonderful stuff, but that�s only me, and�other subjective points say, "Oh, well, what do you want." Having�survived a near-death experience last year, I don�t want to [be�negative]. So now I actually think it�s really good. I mean, every day I hear new�stuff, [about] new technology. And for all that technology has caused us�trouble in the past, I think that united we�re learning to use it. You�know, the thing I saw the other day, I found, was they�ve created�anti-gravity in a laboratory. Oh, really? Yeah, they�ve managed to levitate a sandwich, some grasshoppers, and�a frog. And they�ve done this by using some kind of electromagnetic�field, which is the point when you were a kid, you knew that was going�to come to be. Exactly. So the nice thing: For the year 2000, we�re going to levitate a�hundred people, one from every nation or whatever. Wouldn�t that be a�great gesture? And they�re actually working toward this; they�re not�just saying water in the corner. This is humanity, you know. [Laugh.] So�to me that stuff is actually, I think� It�s a much closer idea than it used to be. Yeah, and I think things are going to be great. We�re going to�discover nanotechnology, and then we�ll become like gods, you know.�We�re ten years away from that. Americans are, anyway. I mean, I see basically major transformation to the sons of humanity. It�s amazing now, but my biggest concern is how are WE going to�change once our millennium fever has run its course? How do you think�the human race is going to react to the year 2000 having come and gone? Well, what�ll happen is everyone�s going to sit down and think,�"Well, we didn�t die [laugh], you know. Christ didn�t come; the aliens�didn�t come, after all, so I forfeit," and it�ll be exactly the same�thing that happened a hundred years ago when� You know, back in the 1890s, people like Oscar Wilde and everyone were�saying, "Art is dead. Culture is dead. There�s nowhere to go but�decadence. Recombine all the elements of the old stuff, but no one will�ever think of anything new." Ten years later, you had T.S. Eliot,�Picasso, James Joyce�and those were all the people that [had] got over�that hundred-year mark. And suddenly someone said, "We�ve got another�hundred years, so we�d better do something." So I think what�s going to happen is we�ll get over that mark and all�the kids who have been born now and are pretty young now are suddenly�going to take a look around and think, "What do we make our world?" And�we�re going to get a whole onslaught of new ideas, new thoughts, new�concepts, because it has to happen. And it always does, you know. I mean, this is�this is what [the] millennium would be. We just caught�the [hints] with the comet and all that, [of crossing] over the�hundred-year mark. And most people in the past have thought,�"Everything�s going to come to an end," and always once we get past�that�and once the people who thought it was going to come to an end�start getting too old�then the young people take over it all, you know.�And it will happen again. What do you think Grant Morrison�s going to do when 2000 has come�and gone? Do you have any idea yet? Hopefully just latch onto the new thing and have fun with it. Keep�going, you know. I don�t know if I want to do comics. I think my big�hero is John Broome, who did The Flash back in the �50s and �60s. Broome�s a big influence on me. An idea of my own, in fact, that he did�comics and then stopped, and he just took off�went around the world,�went to Paris, was going [somewhere else], and he ended up in Japan�where he started a successful business. And he did nothing like comics. You know, I like that kind of idea�that you do your stuff and it�s good�and then you get out before you become bored. So you�re planning on becoming a travelling guru, or maybe going back to working full-time as a playwright? Well, wherever I may. You know, I�ve been offered�I�ve been offered�some things. If I�m going to do crap, then I might do crap for a lot of�money. [Both laugh.] And then that means I can do good stuff that isn�t�making a lot, just doing a lot to keep me happy. So, yeah, I�ll do�something, but right now�up until the year 2000�I�ll just try and�document it all in the comics. |
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