The Crystal Ball: If you are a fan of futuristic books and movies, it’s clear that the vast majority dwell on less than utopian prospects for the human race. Many have humanity reduced to a handful of survivors in the very near future, and those that delve a thousand years or more into the future typically romanticize war, power struggles, exploitation, greed, bigotry, hatred and other unflattering traits as inevitable failings of the human species. Yet most strive to vanquish evil and shed a glimmer of hope. In fiction, doom and gloom always makes a good challenge for heroic protagonists. I admit I’ve explored those avenues in my own writing, and always with the idea that man pretty much gets what he deserves, given there are so many corrupt souls on the planet. If you feel that’s an unfair assessment and the world is full of saints, you need only to brush up on religion.
I apologize for laboring on a negative issue, but I’ve been reading alarming posts with the prevailing attitude that prophesy is about to come to pass, and that Obama will be our last president. The scary part is, that if enough people buy into such notions, that under the current political climate, this nation may just pull some stupid stunt and start a war with catastrophic results.
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