@vinr-mims.bsky.socialWhile we are talking about fiction that resonates & starts in fictional California, #OctaviaButler & #ParableOfTheSower would like a word. Please read these books. Think about what they say about where we are headed. Choices matter. Inaction is still a choice. #ArtPredictsLife
@vinr-mims.bsky.socialI wish this fake history didn't resonate so well with the current moment. There is often TRUTH in fiction that readers ignore because they think of it as about someone else, somewhere else. This was imagined for the US. Building on US history. #ArtPredictsLife #ManInTheHighCastle #PKD
![Page 24 of Man In The Hogh Castle by Phillip K. Dick. Relevant passage starts in first full paragraph and reads:
"But Africa. They had simply let theor enthusiasm get the better of them there, and you had to admire that, although more thoughtful advices would have cautioned them to perhaps let it wait for a bit until, for instance, Project Farmland had been completed. Now there [emphasis original] the Nazis had shown genius; the artist in them had truly emerged. The Mediterranean Sea bottled up, drained, made into tillable farmland, throigh the use of atomic power-- what daring! How the sniggerers had been set back on their heels, for instance certain scoffing merchants along Montgomery Street. And as a matter of fact, Africa had almost been successful...but in a project of that sort, *almost* [emphasis original] was an ominous word to begin to hear. Rosenberg's well-known pamphlet issued in 1958; the word had first shown up, then. *As to the Final Solution of the Africa Problem, we have almost achieved our objectives. Unfortunately, however *--
Still, it had taken two hundred years to dispose of the American aborigines, and Germany had almost done it in Africa in fifteen years. So no criticism was legitimately in order. Childan had, in fact, argued it out recently while having lunch with certain of those merchants. They expected miracles, evidently, as if Nazis could remold the world by magic. No, it was science and technology and that fabulous talent for hard work; the Germans never stopped applying themselves. And when they did a task, they did it *right* [emphasis original]."
That was difficult to type. It is difficult to read and listen to in the audiobook. If it isn't, you are the reason we can't have nice things, like individual rights. You should seek professional help instead of punishing the world for your insecurities.](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_fullsize/plain/did:plc:plnz2hfs6eua3dzzq3jgbhdk/bafkreieoqn6gm7sg3d4m3fujytl3doyrwf2smacrrlvlsjz63zodwdxumq@jpeg)