Fury: Ethan the Driver

An apocalypto-tale of design.

A vignette loosely-inspired by Fury Road. 

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Ethan rode around in the post-apocalypse in his road-racing enhanced off-roading vehicle called Fury. The world had been decimated and there was an eerie yellow sun now, and there was no sense of darkness or light, only enduring gasoline-driven driving and hitch-hiking and barter-extortion between villages by barons, barbarians, and bigots. However, there was an enduring governance overseen by the Council managed by the ‘elders’ of theater. This was the new landscape for the Fury road, and Ethan considered himself a grammarian of civilization reduced simple happiness.

We once remembered how Olympics soccer in Athens, when Argentina claimed the gold-medal, was considered the ‘hallmark’ of human valor, but now it was all considerations of eerie survival, and one would ‘feel’ the ‘presence’ of the dark princes of capitalism gone sandy and vehicular. This was the land of great driving, and one might wonder if the demons were simply the bloody murderers of human frailty! One might also wonder if the great and single Hospital, replacement for the once-popular UN (United Nations) would handle the mass/mob dialysis required for socialized distancing/quarantine.

What if one didn’t know how to play soccer in such a place (of Fury road)? What if Ethan himself was just a ‘ghost-dad’ and not any kind of antihero/samurai whatsoever, despite his ‘knack’ for vigilantism and mercenary-heroics, as he used Fury to salvage targeted villages and rescue humans from the teeth of amorphous rotten tomatoes? Of course, Ethan wrote in his secret diary, “The greatest ‘villain’ in this time of Fury road is the wild-haired man called ‘Joe’ who simply likes to decimate the ‘soccer’ of d.” 

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"Money is everything" (Ecclesiastes)