Everyone is all bent out of shape this morning because “the weekend seems so far away” and “summer is over” and “there may be nuclear war”. Don’t get me wrong, there are only two things that scare me, and 1 is nuclear war. But as the North Korean regime headed by Dough Boy continues to tinker with long range rockets and pushes the strength of its firecrackers to 100 kilotons, I have strong faith in our ability to deal with this existential threat through the power of Media/Tech. Here are a few things we might want to try:
1) Have the folks over at Bravo shoot a season of “The Real Housewives of Pyongyang”. What entertainment threshold that will cross is anyone’s guess, but for sure North Korea would have such a huge new export that they’d have a renewed economic incentive to stop behaving badly.
2) Send Knight Rider on a top secret mission to thwart the evil Regime’s plans for World domination. If Michael Knight and KITT (Knight Industries Two Thousand) can’t get it done, we may well have to surrender.
3) As a show of defiance, pay Seth Rogen an exorbitant amount of cash to write and direct “The Interview Part II” and have the UN Security Council mandate all member states participate in a World Wide premier.
4) Is North Korea connected to the Internet? If so, send in the Bots! Stuxnet can take out Iranian centrifuges and WannaCry can lock up global business networks for ransom. I’m pretty sure we can get a whiz kid hacker to write some devastating code and send a “free cigarettes” file to some unwitting North Korean.. No ?
5) Promise Kim Jong Un that if he will cease and desist all nuclear ambitions, we will provide for him an unlimited supply of corn beef sandwiches, pickles and chips from Zingerman’s Deli in Ann Arbor Michigan. Subsidize their Google Search budgets with defense spending in order to help offset the costs.
6) Nothing. The threat of AI causing WWIII is much greater.
7) Ask AI to figure it out.
8) Marky Mark and The Facebook Bunch should act now on their mission statement to “strengthen our social fabric and bring the world closer together”.
9) Since North Korea has consistently violated UN Security Council Resolutions since 2006, have the experts in setting up Standards, Guidelines and Best Practices, the IAB, help adopt a more rigorous set of provisions.
Oh, what’s the other thing that scares me, you ask? ….The View is returning for Season 21!!!
PEACE
