So I guess I’m religious after all. Science without science fiction is like candles, lamps, and incense in places of worship without prayer. Just a way to make light and nice smells.
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Most current science fiction seems fairly dystopian though. Less of the “nice things” version of religion, more of the “Left Behind”-type stuff.
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That’s nice things! Any deterministic narrative with any sort of logic of justice impossible onto it is “nicer” than the anomie of meaningless non-determinism
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Polytheism is a religion based on extending the default way of knowing we think of as “agency” for example. Knowing-by-becoming. Explaining things in terms of the transformational desires of agenty things. Monotheism is based on knowing-by-being.
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We've been headed here since the Neolithic Revolution. Now bereft of the old consolations, we fall back to the final redoubt: technological utopianism.
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you’re gonna have to tak about specific examples or else it may be really easy to argue with you
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Not quite. The Enlightenment and scientific approach to understanding nature are a direct outcome of an understanding that it was created by a rational mind and thus is rational and understandable.
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I don't know that that's correct. Was true up till, maybe the 70s. Now I think it's children's fiction that's the religion. All people are basically good (except a few baddies who are irredeemably bad), problems solved by pluck and green-lanterning. Fantasy trumps reality.
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