The Downfall of the West
13th January 2016
John C. Wright reacts to VoxDay’s Musings on Immigration (see previous post).
We Americans have never lived in, and can hardly imagine, living in a nation that is not dedicated to an ideal.
We have no idea what it is like to live in a land that stands for nothing, means nothing, and has no future. Small wonder Science Fiction is dominated by the Americans and, to a lesser extent, by the Japanese. In Britain, science fiction has long grown pale on the tall shadow of Michael Moorcock and his New Wave, that is, socially relevant, bitter, and unappealing futurism. The Michael Palin movie BRAZIL is of this same spirit, if not of the same camp.
The grim and boring Philip Pullman trilogy His Dark Materials has the same social message, even though it is fantasy, not science fiction: since there is no God, hope is for chumps, therefore stay in school and be kind to people in small things.
In Europe, there are no great things to do or to defend.
That strikes me as right on target.