Eight Predictions for 2030
Exhibit A:
My comment:
The Enemy is completely serious. This vid was created and released on Twitter by the World Economic Forum as if expecting the general public to be allured by these promises rather than repelled by these threats.
It was deleted as soon as the World Economic Forum realized their misstep. It is, in effect, unintentionally, an ad for gunsmiths. Arm yourself today. Stock up on ammo.
On the other hand, a friend of mine assures me that when one signs a deal with the devil in blood, one fixed provision of the contract is always that you truthfully tell the Christians what you meant to do to them before you do it, despite that you would rather keep your evil goals secret.
So the laws of hell make them say the quiet part aloud: the goal is to undermine the United States (hence liberty), the fossil fuels needed for industrialization (hence prosperity) and private property (hence life). A life of helot dirt-farming is before us, not Mars rockets. Only the nomenklatura able to afford to have their three-dee printed artificial hearts delivered by spy-drones, and only for a time.
In any case, science fiction should be left to we professionals. We know it is fiction, and know how to differentiate utopias from dystopias.
A science fiction writer knows enough to know not to propose the inhuman nightmare of Orwell’s NINETEEN-EIGHTY FOUR (you’ll own nothing), while promising the dehumanizing opium-dream of Huxley’s BRAVE NEW WORLD (you’ll be happy).
Also, we science fiction writers know when an idea has been done before, and done to death. Edward Bellamy’s LOOKING BACKWARD 2000–1887 was written, as the name implies, in 1887, and vapid socialist crackpottery gushed from the pen of an economic ignoramus.
Writers who took up their pens in opposition were not slow, including the first father of modern fantasy, William Morris:
- Morris, William, News from Nowhere (1890)
- Bachelder, J. A.D. 2050. Electrical Development at Atlantis (1890)
- Harris, G. Inequality and Progress (1897) [which assumes Bellamy advocated an absolute equality of goods]
- Michaelis, R.C. Looking Further Forward: An Answer to “Looking Backward” by Edward Bellamy (1890)
- Roberts, J.W. Looking Within: The Misleading Tendencies of “Looking Backward” Made Manifest (1893)
- Sanders, G.A. Reality: or Law and order vs. Anarchy and Socialism, A Reply to Edward Bellamy’s Looking Backward and Equality (1898)
- Satterlee, W.W. Looking Backward and What I Saw (1890)
Vinton, A.D. Looking Further Backward (1890) - West, J. [pseud.] My Afterdream (1900)
- Wilbrant, C. Mr. East’s Experiences in Mr. Bellamy’s World (1891)
About John C Wright
John C. Wright is a practicing philosopher, a retired attorney, newspaperman, and newspaper editor, and a published author of science fiction. Once a Houyhnhnm, he was expelled from the august ranks of purely rational beings when he fell in love; but retains an honorary title.
