Inevitability is no match for indolence
“I don’t like today’s sci-fi. It’s all too dystopian.” “We’ve always had some dystopia in our sci-fi. It’s wired into us.” “To be hopeless?” “No. To be selfish. I mean,…
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AI Doesn’t Need a Window
Kafka had a clear idea on what the American dream would become, even if he didn’t want it published: “If necessary, he would gladly become a messenger boy, but it…
Once you hear it, you can’t unhear it
“I am reading The Girl with All the Gifts, and one line stuck with me. ‘[H]er survival is a side effect of [her] mediocrity.’ [pg. 264] Different context but it…
If Nigeria warns of an impending cultural collapse, does anyone in America hear it…?
Why is Trump bombing Nigeria? Sure, oil… but also they were way ahead of us on seeing the true meaning of “maga”: “The more he talks, the more I realize…
Under the Throes of Big Umbrella
How odd and yet perfectly logical that a description of a dystopian future defined by cannibalism and disassociation has the same feel as America under Trump: “It’s a shrill silence…
Maybe This Wasn’t So Hard to Foresee
What is the most depressing thing about Trump? “That was the chilling sight: the lines of tired people, worn out from a long hard day of work, willing to stand…
June 23 makes you crazy
We don’t talk or write about June 23 – because it is the kind of date that drives you crazy: “…Policeman Fox was alone in a private room with MacCruiskeen…
So Ballard was TOO optimistic about humanity?!?
J.G. Ballard is not subtle. All his women are DTF, and when he has a point, he is going to hammer it into the text. Maybe that’s due to the…
Put the Fake Fox in charge of the fake news channel
Reynard, that mythical trickster, has more integrity than the average Fox News viewer. Reynard is willing to stand on principle, and help those he dislikes, against oppressive governance. I can’t…
Hopefully someone cleaned up after him…
Funny how, in the evolution of language, some words don’t exactly lose their original meaning, but you would never use them in that context in modern prose. For example: “He…