serieshero

I remember all the useless anxiety ahead of New Year's Eve 2000. The hype over Y2K turned out to be a big nothing. Dancing in the new millennium with a beautiful woman, to me in that moment it seemed like the future was unimaginably bright. 
          	
          	And now look at where things are. Is this really the future we thought we were getting as the 21st century dawned? Decline everywhere, masked only by technology and the distraction it offers. Victimhood celebrated over excellence. Social atomization the new norm. Ugliness a supposed marker of virtue and authenticity. The civilized shrink before the barbarians both internationally, and in our cities.
          	
          	Maybe this the future we chose by a series of bad decisions. To that extent, it's the future this civilization deserves.
          	
          	But even so, what would one do to make it better now? How does a civilization start over?
          	
          	I guess that's where I'm coming from right now in my writing. The fictional world of Demeter that will be appearing in "The Lie Called Earth" is basically our world if it hadn't all wrong.
          	
          	A nice fantasy. But I'd still like to bring a little Demeter to Earth. Yeah maybe not everyone deserves to live in Demeter, but a lot of us do.

serieshero

I remember all the useless anxiety ahead of New Year's Eve 2000. The hype over Y2K turned out to be a big nothing. Dancing in the new millennium with a beautiful woman, to me in that moment it seemed like the future was unimaginably bright. 
          
          And now look at where things are. Is this really the future we thought we were getting as the 21st century dawned? Decline everywhere, masked only by technology and the distraction it offers. Victimhood celebrated over excellence. Social atomization the new norm. Ugliness a supposed marker of virtue and authenticity. The civilized shrink before the barbarians both internationally, and in our cities.
          
          Maybe this the future we chose by a series of bad decisions. To that extent, it's the future this civilization deserves.
          
          But even so, what would one do to make it better now? How does a civilization start over?
          
          I guess that's where I'm coming from right now in my writing. The fictional world of Demeter that will be appearing in "The Lie Called Earth" is basically our world if it hadn't all wrong.
          
          A nice fantasy. But I'd still like to bring a little Demeter to Earth. Yeah maybe not everyone deserves to live in Demeter, but a lot of us do.