Lee Willard

Autopsy of a Superpower (eBook, ePUB)

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Produktbeschreibung

Toffler warned us in 1970 with the book 'Future Shock' that society can not be changed at the rate we were changing it or people would go, for all intents and purposes, insane. Today his prediction has come to pass and a significant fraction of our population cannot tell what is real, don't believe in truth and may not even believe in reality.

We were only following our ideals, what a good public school education taught us, that life should be fair, that people should have equal rights under the law, that there should be equal pay for equal work. We believed our air and water should be clean. We believed that we should have freedom of clothing styles, hair styles and that we should be set free from status symbols. We had no idea how badly our ideals conflicted with human nature

But we also believed that women should have control of their own bodies and that they should have as much right to recreational sex as men. We believed that people of all races should have equal rights under the law, in the workplace and in other public places. That they should have the same rights to housing and mortgages, schools and grocery stores as anyone.

We didn't take into account how important status is in human life, in many cases, more important than life itself. We didn't know how much hate, anger and resentment those ideals would cause because those ideals lead to a huge loss of status by a very large segment of our population, White males. For two generations that hate and anger has been building until unleashed by a demagogue who will shortly use it to end democracy if he gets any chance at all. He has somewhere between 38 million and 75 million armed followers that we have driven insane to help him carry it out.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Lee Willard
• Erscheinungstermin: 21. Dezember 2021
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781005034139
• Artikelnr.: 72788186

Autorenporträt

I am a retired embedded systems engineer and sci-fi hobbyist from Hartford. Most of my stories concern Kassidor, 'The planet the hippies came from' which I have used to examine subjects like: What would it take to make the hippy lifestyle real? How would extended lifespans affect society? What could happen if we outlive our memories? How can murder be committed when violence is impossible?

I have recently discovered that someone new to science fiction should start their exploration of Kassidor with the Second Expedition trilogy. To the mainstream fiction reader the alien names of people, places and things can be confusing. This series has a little more explanation of the differences between Kassidor and Earth. In all of the Kassidor stories you will notice the people do not act like ordinary humans but like flower children from the 60's. It is not until Zhlindu that the actual modifications made to human nature to make them act that way are spelled out. To aide that understanding I've made The Second Expedition free.

I am not a fan of violence and dystopia. I believe that sci-fi does not just predict the future, but helps create the future because we sci-fi writers show our readers what the future will be and the readers go out and create it. I believe that the current fad of constant dystopia and mega-violence in sci-fi today is helping to create that world, and I mention that often in reviews and comments on the books I read. I also believe that the characters in those stories who are completely free of any affection are at least as unnatural as the modified humans of Kassidor.

In my reviews, * = couldn't finish it. ** = Don't bother with it. *** = good story worth reading. **** = great and memorable story. ***** = Worth a Hugo.