They profess to fear these events, but in fact they're looking
forward to them, because they'll be proved right and have the upper
hand, and everyone else will be wrong.
On that note, let me share something I read yesterday on Mark
K-Punk's excellent blog.
"[Nigel]Kneale's
SF, like Ballard's disaster novels of the early 60s, is
compelled to endlessly rehearse apocalypse, to re-imagine
civilization in meltdown. Don't be fooled: the moral messages are
what libido (=Thanatos) needs in order to simultaneously mask and
show itself. If you are continually repeating something, it's
because you want it. Like the rest of us, Kneale can't help
desiring London's devastation."
I'll also plug one of my favorite SF novels here: John Kessel's
Good News From Outer Space. It's a riveting portrayal of
eschatological nuttiness.
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