We are the hollow menWe are the stuffed menLeaning togetherHeadpiece filled with straw. Alas!Sometime in the early 2020s, humans managed to eradicate themselves in a giant nuclear conflagration. Well, fortunately, “eradication” is not entirely correct. A few remnants of humanity were able to move off-world. Fortunately, between 1999 and 2005, humans colonized Mars. Well, fortunately for the humans; it was not quite so fortunate for the Martians. It’s funny how science fiction written in … [Read more...] about The Lonely Ones
Ray Bradbury
Burning Books
“School is shortened, discipline relaxed, philosophies, histories, languages dropped, English and spelling gradually neglected, finally almost completely ignored. Life is immediate, the job counts, pleasure lies all about after work.” Ray Bradbury wrote that in 1953 in Fahrenheit 451. Fast forward 67 years. The same thing could be said today, which all by itself in incredibly curious. If Bradbury was right in 1953, then shouldn’t we be further along in the destruction of books and learning … [Read more...] about Burning Books