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Oct. 3rd, 2015 06:42 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
beccaelizabethI just read a comment that listed off a bunch of systemic problems under capitalism and then went "I don't have an answer for you."
It had more sentences after that but I gave up
and not just because of that specific comment right there.
I just read a whole F&SF anthology that felt exactly like that, like each and every story in this 'best of' stated a bunch of problem and stopped. "I don't have an answer for you" with more gore and nasty.
What happened to hope? What happened to the idea that science and the human application thereof could actually fix things? I realise there are problems, but if all we do is go yep, that's a problem right there, then our basement is flooding and we're too depressed to do anything about it.
We need a genre that's all about seeing a way out of the maze, or we're just going to sit and stew in it. We're going to let everyone sit and stew in it. And that's rubbish.
There's always a way out. We need to get cracking on seeing it, and making it happen.
It had more sentences after that but I gave up
and not just because of that specific comment right there.
I just read a whole F&SF anthology that felt exactly like that, like each and every story in this 'best of' stated a bunch of problem and stopped. "I don't have an answer for you" with more gore and nasty.
What happened to hope? What happened to the idea that science and the human application thereof could actually fix things? I realise there are problems, but if all we do is go yep, that's a problem right there, then our basement is flooding and we're too depressed to do anything about it.
We need a genre that's all about seeing a way out of the maze, or we're just going to sit and stew in it. We're going to let everyone sit and stew in it. And that's rubbish.
There's always a way out. We need to get cracking on seeing it, and making it happen.