When I look at the Sci-fi coming out of Hollywood these days, I see a
severe dearth of positive vision for our future. Almost everything
making it to the big screen is dystopian in nature. I am completely worn
out on dystopia. Ragnarok and Armageddon can kiss my hiney. I read
PLENTY of quite gripping stories of near-term sci-fi in the 70’s and
80’s that have been completely ignored by film. I find myself yearning
for anything in our society’s vision of the future that shows how we
could enact positive change and puts a non-dystopian alternative into
the mass consciousness of the planet on anything near the scale of the
dark world visions that have been shoved into our craniums. Even Star
Trek is now circling the black hole of Dystopia. It has become a global
mental illness.
I think it would be a blast to write something full of light and hope in the era of twenty-teens technological potential and get some young CGI genius to help YouTube it into viraldom. AND encapsulate the spirit of your post into it. I’ve done a lot of writing myself, but mostly poetry. I’ve had this concept of “What We COULD Do” buried in the back of my mind for fifteen years. It sure would be a lot more fun than ranting about what’s going in in DC these days. With the right team, such a project could really do wonders on the lock of Earth’s current mental cage.
Remember the old adage, “a picture is worth a thousand words?” By the way, I think most “moving pictures” start with a few thousand words.
I have come to the conclusion that this popular fascination with dystopia is the overt expression of a mass subconscious yearning for major systemic change. In most every one, a new world begins after the current one is swept away. The new world is never fully defined. It’s the modern version of “happily ever after.”
I think a modern vision that encompasses sweeping positive change without the sweeping disaster being necessary might just be worth putting into a movie, and making it widely available might just give people a path to converting all that pent up dark energy into light.
Dan
I think it would be a blast to write something full of light and hope in the era of twenty-teens technological potential and get some young CGI genius to help YouTube it into viraldom. AND encapsulate the spirit of your post into it. I’ve done a lot of writing myself, but mostly poetry. I’ve had this concept of “What We COULD Do” buried in the back of my mind for fifteen years. It sure would be a lot more fun than ranting about what’s going in in DC these days. With the right team, such a project could really do wonders on the lock of Earth’s current mental cage.
Remember the old adage, “a picture is worth a thousand words?” By the way, I think most “moving pictures” start with a few thousand words.
I have come to the conclusion that this popular fascination with dystopia is the overt expression of a mass subconscious yearning for major systemic change. In most every one, a new world begins after the current one is swept away. The new world is never fully defined. It’s the modern version of “happily ever after.”
I think a modern vision that encompasses sweeping positive change without the sweeping disaster being necessary might just be worth putting into a movie, and making it widely available might just give people a path to converting all that pent up dark energy into light.
Dan
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