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I'm still thinking about solipsism and the science fiction imagination.
It's inspired by a thread at rec.arts.sf.composition, in which Old Toby posits gates to alternate worlds which are unpopulated so we can build huge hydroelectric power projects on them and run our civilization with no consequences.
How many science fiction devices are just like that? Imagine a way to be free of the consequences of capitalism. Wouldn't that be nice? You could live like nothing matters but your own desires.
In this category too, I think, are idyllic futures where disease or mishap (of which the survivors are innocent, naturally) has taken away a large chunk fo the population -- the nonwhite, the women, the men, usually some combination of the first two. somehow this means that the world will become green and prosperous.
I have of course used all my time making my wordage so I'lll have to continue this later.
It's inspired by a thread at rec.arts.sf.composition, in which Old Toby posits gates to alternate worlds which are unpopulated so we can build huge hydroelectric power projects on them and run our civilization with no consequences.
How many science fiction devices are just like that? Imagine a way to be free of the consequences of capitalism. Wouldn't that be nice? You could live like nothing matters but your own desires.
In this category too, I think, are idyllic futures where disease or mishap (of which the survivors are innocent, naturally) has taken away a large chunk fo the population -- the nonwhite, the women, the men, usually some combination of the first two. somehow this means that the world will become green and prosperous.
I have of course used all my time making my wordage so I'lll have to continue this later.