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Science Fiction Goes Senile

Posted by Bob in Coaching Session, How Things Work on 11/28/2015

When I was young, I loved science fiction. I went to some conventions.

Back then SF looked to the future. It demanded experimentation. In a world where population and per capita income both increased steadily science fiction was the cutting edge of demands for technological progress and optimism.

Now reading SciFi is like listening to an old man grumble to himself.

“None of these new-fangled things will do anything but cause disaster.” photo malthus.jpg

In today’s scifi, any population increase means starvation.

One story talked about the discovery of the secret of eternal life, and then showed how it was banned forever because a society that could extend life forever did not realize it might involve a population increase, and total disaster ensued.

The very idea is laughable, but nobody laughed.

They PUBLISHED this crap.

Today’s clowns READ this crap!

Science fiction is now “message media.” Each story is supposed to advance the “message.”

So, like all Marxist output, it is BORING.

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