"So we are primed by our cultural inheritance to see past collapses as apocalyptic events." So as a writer with a penchant for world wrecking, and a reader who has finally gotten around to Nicola Griffith's Hild ... https://getpocket.com/explore/item/do-civilisations-collapse?utm_source=twtrsynd&utm_medium=social … via @Pocket (1/3)
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... (and admiring the hell out of it btw), and a cultural historian who has found "Rome didn't fall, it slid" an intellectual touchstone ... I find myself thinking, if in our fictions our civilization ended but didn't "collapse", what would that look like to the people (2/3)...
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Michael Flynn touches on an aspect of this in his "Up Jim River" series not a collapse, but a slide, where history (and science!) recedes over the horizon
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I did something similar in this threadhttps://twitter.com/MorlockP/status/1258380246174367745 …
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ⓘ Dogs don't have thumbs @MorlockP7/ Another way to think of it is to put it into the realm of science fiction / historical analogy. To return to the US / Mexico story, push the tale forward 100 years. Arizona is having a bit of a fiscal crisis, central control from DC is weakening, Arizona taxes >Show this thread1 reply 0 retweets 0 likes -
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That's a great thread. And you, my friend, should write a novel in the late-Gonzalez- or post-Gonzalez-verse.
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