What's interesting is that sci-fi works were so laden with contemporary understanding that humans were going to ruin the world and possibly even more worlds with space travel that it landed authors like Bradbury on FBI watchlists. During the Cold War, the FBI thought that sci-fi had latent Communist ideals, and so they believed sci-fi was being used to take over academia. It just shows that even without being keen observers of the capitalist and liberal ideological foundation of western society post-industrial, anyone with a good imagination could see where we were headed. I think this was evinced even more by the fact that Bradbury himself became a staunch conservative in his later years and waxed poetic about Reagan and Bush.
I think this was evinced more by the fact that Bradbury himself became a staunch conservative in his later years and waxed poetic about Reagan and Bush.
Please, if I ever get old enough to get the kind of brainworms that would result in me being nostalgic about Obama, I want one of you to hunt me down and put a bullet in me. That's no way to live.
What's interesting is that sci-fi works were so laden with contemporary understanding that humans were going to ruin the world and possibly even more worlds with space travel that it landed authors like Bradbury on FBI watchlists. During the Cold War, the FBI thought that sci-fi had latent Communist ideals, and so they believed sci-fi was being used to take over academia. It just shows that even without being keen observers of the capitalist and liberal ideological foundation of western society post-industrial, anyone with a good imagination could see where we were headed. I think this was evinced even more by the fact that Bradbury himself became a staunch conservative in his later years and waxed poetic about Reagan and Bush.
Please, if I ever get old enough to get the kind of brainworms that would result in me being nostalgic about Obama, I want one of you to hunt me down and put a bullet in me. That's no way to live.