solipsism 1

[ritaxis]

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.

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[mjlayman.livejournal.com]

Lake Anna was built to take the water after it went through a cooling house. The only complaint that the people in the expensive houses now around Lake Anna is that the temperature will go up a degree with the new plant. We haven't had any problems with ours, and they are theoretically going to be okay if the Madrid Fault goes up. It hasn't happened in memory, so I can only say "theoretically." It's definitely been planned for. We are ruining the southwestern part of the state with coal mining.