We spent some time today at the Renaissance Faire (yes, that's "Fair" with an "e" - just as in "olde", "shoppe", and other words denoting tourism) in in Twig, MN. It's a small "Faire", especially in comparison to Minnesota's Shakopee Renaissance Festival, but delightfully non-Disney. Pat was a swarthy pirate by my side, and I but a poor serving wench!
It all made me wonder: hundreds of years from now, will there be "Early 21st Century Fair"s? Or "Faire"s? Will people dress up in OUR 'costumes of the day'? I can just imagine folks donning ass pants, applying fake tattoos to mimic the "tramp stamp" of the day. Or young men spending a great deal of money to purchase handmade "authentic" saggers; the crotch-down-to-your knees style that seems to have infected today's youth...
What about those dressing as the wealthy of our day? Will they wear replicas of Armani suits? Purchase fake bottles of Dom Perignon and pretend to sup it with their peers? Will the women mimic the look of breast and lip implants? (I'm assuming, perhaps in error, that this fad will have faded by then -- or that we will be merely genetically producing people with all of the 'amenities' that we now so barberically cobble together...)
Will folks, hundreds of years from now, be so fascinated with how we lived, made art, did business, etc., that they'll pretend to be us, as we pretended to be Renaissance era folk today? And how successful will they be?
Sometime to ponder; as I ate my "Renaissance" corn dog today....
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