This has been on my mind for a while.
One thing often missing in stories now is thinking, and dreaming better worlds. I was at the library, and near all the books in the science fiction section,...once a place of hope. Nearly all were dystopian.
See above.
Post apocalyptic duels with irradiated swords mutants pissed off A.I. robots, and evil cyborg war lords.
Eh,...and of course our favs Zombie, and Vampire Cannibal Empires.
Every title has "Death Betrayal Plague Warrior or Virus" in it. Demand better from the authors, and if you write. Write about worlds you 'want' to live in not fight battle or just survive in. Worlds that work, and not just for the interstellar nobility.
Do something you, and your pals will feel happy for having read.
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We are living out the "Sixth Extinction". There is nothing to be happy about and our lives will become more miserable as we are crushed under "growth", "development" and "progress".
"Mind near exhaustion still makes its final futile movement towards that 'way out or round or through the impasse'.
That is the utmost now that mind can do. And this, its last expiring thrust, is to demonstrate that the door closes upon us for evermore.
There is no way out, or round or through."
-H. G. Wells, "Mind at the End of Its Tether", 1945
To make the world work for everyone, in the shortest possible time, without environmental damage or the disadvantage of anyone: that was Bucky Fuller’s self-assigned mission.
Z
Buckminster Fuller was the last man that could have saved us from the horrible fate we are all facing now. He was aware how badly things were spinning out of control. His designs for enormous geodesic domes and floating tetrahedronal cities, which mimic the way nature itself works, utilizing only a fraction of the resources that our current idiotic designs employ, could have given us all a fantastic quality of life. His concept was that the world had to work for everyone, not just a few who grab all the money. On top of that he was a great human!
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