Posted on 02/26/2023 5:18:16 AM PST by MtnClimber
Dystopian seemingly "futuristic" events are not part of a science fiction plot; they are occurring and have already occurred.
Science fiction is a quintessentially guilty (Anglo-) American pleasure. Like horror, crime fiction, and spy novels, sci-fi has yet to be recognized as "high literature" by many (especially conservative) literary critics. This is not, however, to say that science fiction has had no impact on American and broader world culture — quite the contrary. Elon Musk, the current billionaire bête noire of the left, has cited Isaac Asimov's classic Foundation series as inspiration for his own creation of Tesla and SpaceX. MIT scientist and popular YouTuber Lex Friedman recently included a number of science fiction tomes in a list of books that most influenced him. Peter Thiel, another powerful figure on the rights, draws his political inspiration from The Lord of the Rings series, a work of fantasy, sci-fi's generic cousin.
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Totalitarian governments, implanted microchips, artificial intelligence, and digital passports seemed the fare of science fiction — and wide-eyed conspiracy theorists — even up until the first decade of the twenty-first century. It was always assumed that the love of liberty in the Anglo-Saxon world, the lessons of communism and fascism from the twentieth century, and the West's Christian moral inheritance would keep any encroaching totalitarianism from reaching England or the United States. COVID, however, changed all of this.
In his new book from Regnery Press, The New Abnormal: The Rise of the Biomedical Security State, former University of California Irving medical school professor Aaron Kheriaty chronicles how he went from being at the frontline of COVID lockdowns in California to the tip of the spear in resisting what he believes is the increasingly totalitarian system that has been implemented over the past three years in the name of biosecurity.
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Sometimes truth really is stranger than fiction.
My page here has some reviews of science fiction novels and short stories—they get a lot of the future wrong but sometimes they get it right.
“Truth”?
The Lefts Big Plan To Kill The U.S.A - A-I Insanity( DML, Feb 23, 2023)
https://rumble.com/v2anm66-the-lefts-big-plan-to-kill-the-u.s.a.html
Artificial Intelligence is not real, but it is designed to twist reality and make a lie into the truth.
A lie can never become the Truth, but we can be tricked into believing the lie.
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“Like horror, crime fiction, and spy novels, sci-fi has yet to be recognized as “high literature” by many (especially conservative) literary critics.”
And yet, the Star Trek episode, “The City on the edge of Forever” is widely considered to be one of the best, if not the best television episodes ever made.
Sometimes critics need to get over themselves
The Earth was never flat.
There were no witches in Salem, MA.
Covid was a normal flu season and not a pandemic.
Prove me wrong.
Never could understand why that episode was considered so great. But then, I’ll never understand how “Birdman” and “The Shape of Water” won Best Picture Oscars, either.
The Salem witch question is actually the most interesting one.
History is written by the victors—and neither you nor I were actually in Salem during that period.
It also depends on the definition of witch—and there are many variations of those—and the term probably meant something different then than it does today.
Sort of like how the modern day definition of “vaccine” changed in the last three years?
You pretty much just argued my entire point for me and that point is, people are simply stupid and will believe whatever garbage is thrown in front of them.
The definition of witch was made/created/defined during the Salem Witch Trials period to get people to want to burn other people at the stack. Who cares if it has changed since “by the victors”. What matters is what the definition of witch was when the people were burned at the stake. In short, no matter what the definition was, those so-called witches were just people who were vilified by other people and then murdered.
In that same fashion, the definition of vaccine was charged (a lot faster this time since we have the wonderful tool called the internet) in modern times to get people to force other people to take poison.
Yup...that pretty much sums it up.
We’re living in some kind of weird dystopian novel.
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