One of the most aggravating things to me in this world has to be the absolutely rampant anti-intellectualism that dominates so many conversations and debates, and its influence just seems to be expanding. Do you think there will ever actually be a time when this ends? I'd hope so once people become more educated and cultural changes eventually happen, but as of now it honestly infuriates me like few things ever have.
Thanks a lot for that link. I am a hardcore science fiction nerd, yet I had never crossed paths with that one. Indeed relevant in this debate, too.
Glad you enjoyed!
The incisive, very short sci-fi story was a fun form; I don’t see it much today. Some other famous ones you’ve likely already read, but if not:
https://archive.org/stream/HarrisonBergeron/Harrison Bergeron_djvu.txt
https://www.mit.edu/people/dpolicar/writing/prose/text/thinkingMeat.html (Bonus short film: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7tScAyNaRdQ)
http://www.thelastquestion.net
Otherwise, to mention random old sci-fi, if you’ve never read any Clifford D. Simak, you might check him out. He often wrote interestingly contained, philosophically rich, “pastoral” stories that were very different from other Golden Age writers’.
This example isn’t pastoral, but here his most famous work, a connected collection of stories about the history of Man, as written by the Dogs: https://oceanofpdf.com/authors/clifford-d-simak/pdf-epub-city-by-clifford-d-simak-download/?id=001704212442
When the next gen of simplified AI animation tools arrive, I am thinking about trying my hand at animating some of Simak’s more contained stories, as they have few characters, some of them robots and/or aliens, and just one or two settings.