kinda why i regard most classic SF as cultural masturbation, stroking your worldview by projecting it into the far future where it still holds, revealing what you knew all along, that it is fundamental truthhttps://twitter.com/MothRecess/status/921229629326729216 …
which works a lot of changes in the mass market for stories, sure, but it's worth mentioning that the enlightenment was an effort to open up ideas that had previously been husbanded by an elite to the masses
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b4 the enlightement, IMHARVO, there is no real future, only revelation, which was god-made & written. The future is man-made & unwritten.
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holy shit i can't even google for that one. In My Holy And Revealed Valid Opinion?
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In My Humble and Rarely Voiced Opinion
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And even with the enlightenment way behind them, writers are gonna be wrestling with "Fuck, you mean there's a future? This is huge!"
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there's going to be some lead-up to it, yes, but we had how long of church dogma defining reality? Centuries? Millenia?
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