There’s an episode of Star Trek: Voyager (S5E1, “Night”) where they’re crossing a vast void with no stars visible because black clouds shroud starlight. The crew is going crazy. Then stuff happens, but it’s the set up that interests me: featureless darkness as a psychic stressor.
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Initially I thought I was getting old, or just not in tune with moods. Maybe I’m just better at spotting the satire-eye patterns in an optimistic age. But I don’t think so. I don’t see anybody doing it well now. There were dozens of us churning this stuff out 6-7 years ago.
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Younger and presumably more plugged-in people are increasingly not even bothering to try at the macro scale. They’re strategically focusing on the meso and micro scales. Local weather so to speak. Or even just turning inwards. Cozy web, dark forest, whatever you choose to call it
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Initially I thought maybe it was a good thing that an age of pattern-spotting TED-talking blowhards (myself included, though I never did a TED talk, I’m proud to say) was ending. Giving way to more substantial and serious things. But I think a baby got tossed with the bathwater.
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I’ll admit I’m going slightly nuts due to not having spotted a major thing in nearly 2 years (internet of beefs was published this year but I spotted it in 2018 or so: just didn’t blog it though I tweeted about it a bit)
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One thought I am mulling is if fiction takes on a different role in a dark age. Instead of holding up a mirror to society to capture the macro patterns, it begins to play more of a wayfinding role.
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