I'm going to get a little esoteric here, but as someone who grew up with science fiction written in the period from the 1930s to mid-60s it does sound like America has really gone off track. I keep thinking about the line in Asimov's Foundation Trilogy where future historians would draw the line for when the empire began to fall. That co…
I'm going to get a little esoteric here, but as someone who grew up with science fiction written in the period from the 1930s to mid-60s it does sound like America has really gone off track. I keep thinking about the line in Asimov's Foundation Trilogy where future historians would draw the line for when the empire began to fall. That could be Reagan's election. And Heinlein brilliantly wrote about how under the right circumstances America could become a fascist theocracy. I'm sure Powell never meant to destroy the country, but what he helped start certainly seems to be sliding in that direction. And then there's Gödel. A brilliant mathematician who when he was studying for his citizenship exam (Einstein was his sponsor) said that a loophole in the Constitution could turn America into a dictatorship. There are several theories about what he saw, but the process discussed here certainly could be it.
I'm going to get a little esoteric here, but as someone who grew up with science fiction written in the period from the 1930s to mid-60s it does sound like America has really gone off track. I keep thinking about the line in Asimov's Foundation Trilogy where future historians would draw the line for when the empire began to fall. That could be Reagan's election. And Heinlein brilliantly wrote about how under the right circumstances America could become a fascist theocracy. I'm sure Powell never meant to destroy the country, but what he helped start certainly seems to be sliding in that direction. And then there's Gödel. A brilliant mathematician who when he was studying for his citizenship exam (Einstein was his sponsor) said that a loophole in the Constitution could turn America into a dictatorship. There are several theories about what he saw, but the process discussed here certainly could be it.