More on Doom a few random comments and a joke
This is from a very long paragraph from Niall Ferguson’s new book, but it references a lot of literature. I have a few comments on it.
“As the example of Submission suggests, science fiction is as much concerned with political catastrophe as with the natural or technological variety, A recurrent dystopia since the 1930s has been that of a fascist America. This fear has persisted from Sinclair Lewis’s It Can’t Happen Here (1935) to Susan Collins’ The Hunger Games (2008), by way of Stephen King’s The Running Man (1982), Margaret Atwood’s The Handmaiden’s Tale (1985)…”
This is not the whole paragraph, but you get the gist of it. Ferguson also mentions other fiction about dystopia, including most importantly 1984. There is something sadly interesting because it does sometimes feel like the world is “going to hell in a handbasket,” as my Dad once said.
A joke:
Karmageddon: it’s the end of the world.