War of the Worlds V - a photo on Flickriver

            As you read the descriptions on my other two shots today, you get a full picture of my motivation here. It's a bit of fun, but a time out from reflecting on the beauties of Nature, to a little inner reflection.

Science fiction really got going with the work of two authors in particular: Jules Verne (1828-1905) and H.G Wells (1866-1946). It is a fascinating genre that has on one hand successfully predicted future scientific developments, but equally as much, has often simply projected the fears and prejudices of the present into the future. There is a wonderful scholarly study on this genre by my former thesis supervisor at Monash University, Professor Andrew Milner, "Locating Science Fiction" (Liverpool University Press, 2012).

So much sci-fi is utopian in its dreams. At least H.G. Wells showed us that progress was no guarantee that the world would be better - far from it! I'd still live in the Classical Greece of Homer if given the choice, rather than the world of today - I can really do without the technology. It would be a shorter life, but I would know that I really lived.

I find it amusing that so many people believe that if the aliens come they will be our friends. I'm in the Professor Stephen Hawking camp. If and when they come they will destroy us - look at our own history of colonisation to see what happens when worlds collide. Dear God, we can't even allow ourselves space to think transgressive ideas today.

However, I'm not so sure that a War of the Worlds will ever happen in outer space. We fight this war in the inner space of our minds. Right here, right now there is a war for the control of your mind. Do not under any circumstances allow another person, political or religious ideology to direct your thinking. Seek to be truly educated with wisdom. Think for yourself! That's the only way to be fully and individually a human being. And Socrates was prepared to die for exactly that vision.

Taken on: May 4, 2020

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