Speculative fiction writers have been warning us for a LONG Time. Since 1931.
Forward to ‘Amusing Ourselves to Death’ by Neil Postman (1985). Who also warned us, but not as a novel.
<<In short, Orwell feared that what we hate will ruin us. Huxley feared that what we love will ruin us.>>
Post-Dobbs concept, redesigned.
Sort of a Euler diagram.
@kegill It's not hard to warn people when they're just playing their part in an endless cycle.
It sometimes seems that humanity is doomed to endlessly repeat our mistakes for the crime of not learning from our history.
@LouisIngenthron
I fear most of us don’t appreciate “history” until we’ve got some of our own (age).
Maybe it’s taught in a more interesting way now, but date-driven rather than cause-effect stories like I experienced was deadly. I had a great history teacher in college: western civilization. But it was ancient history (without the link to today).
We need to clone Heather Cox Richardson and Kevin Kruse and Ruth Ben-Ghiat.