Science fiction is the dominant religion of modernity. A lazy, wishful, and comforting extension of a default way of knowing about real things to a way of imagining nice things. Older epochs of religion simply do that with less powerful default ways of knowing
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Replying to @vgr
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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Replying to @micahtredding
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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Replying to @vgr @micahtredding
* imposed not impossible...
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