Futurologists please take note. You are now redundant, join the soup queue at the end of the corridor and hand in your VIP passes because the future belongs to science fiction writers.
An article by Firefox and either we are getting there (which Playstation games suggest we are) or we aren’t. Employing a bunch of self-congratulatory has-beens to mine the tropes of the future to explain the present and then justify it through the phrase “we spend most of our careers in the future” is like saying the best person to create a successful dogfood recipe is a dog and we should sack all those food technologists we now employ because hey! They are not dogs, right?
It’s exactly this kind of thinking that makes me thing we are slipping, by degrees into an Orwellian world where language is used against us. Science fiction writers of intent please note, real science fiction is rarely about the future. It is a parable-at best and an extrapolation from the present which has a didactic scope which applied crassly to the present would have seemed out of context.
Ok, now that the double-good US government has these ‘young guns’ on its side I am prepared to give up the fight for a free world and some logic and throw my lot in with the terrorists. Maybe we need something to shake us out of our illogicality!
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