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To: cgbg
As I have stated in a previous post, yes, some things, from long ago fiction, have indeed sort of come to pass. It's just NOT in the same way as were written about.

OTOH...the book series about a Baron Trump ( the second R is missing ) which was written at the time period that these books were set in, has the description of the buildings and especially the description of the house that Baron lived in, ALL WRONG! If it had included correct or even vaguely similar descriptions, that might, be a different story...maybe. LOL

There's a book that I read when I was 12 or 13 ( I wish that I could remember the title, but I can't ) that was about a few children who go to another planet, where people wore crazy clothing ( whatever they wanted to ), many men had long hair, and it was a populace who believed in "doing your own thing". When the Hippie fad hit, I was reminded of that fantasy book. And the book was also written in the late Victorian era; it was a Brit book, BTW.

As in BRAVE NEW WORLD, we've now reached a point where we are told that we can't use the word "MOTHER", there were test tube babies, and children from an extremely young age were taught all about sexual activities...though "transgenderism" wasn't included. Then there's the "SOMA" ( dope ), everyone having contraceptives ( that was something that at the time was EXTREMELY difficult to get ), and children being raised in what we now call "DAY CARE".

And there is NOTHING whatsoever in the Trump series about a time machine. SO there's just no comparison other than a version of Barron's name and where he lived. But there were NO brownstones on Fifth Ave. at these time that these books were written and never have been. The houses on Fifth Avenue, at that time, were MANSIONS and these were then replaced by department store!

53 posted on 07/12/2024 12:57:39 PM PDT by nopardons
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To: nopardons

I read a lot of SF as well—the transgender propaganda insanity was one piece the writers missed and has been a big and nasty surprise.

SF writers also did not predict wackadoodles like the Nazi guy in Europe telling everybody to eat bugs and “own nothing”.

Another surprise has been the rise of the Karenocracy in organizations small and large, private and public—nasty women trying to make everybody miserable.

One more has been the attempt to make the ugly replace beautiful—partially predicted by Vonnegut to be fair.

All that is an argument against time travel...


55 posted on 07/12/2024 1:05:05 PM PDT by cgbg ("Our democracy" = Their Kleptocracy)
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