The biggest single task facing the United States today is the unleashing of our social imagination. We are locked into twentieth century institutions and twentieth century habits of mind. Science fiction is the literary genre (OK, true, sometimes a subliterary genre) where the social imagination is being cultivated and developed. Young people should read this genre to help open their minds to the extraordinary possibilities that lie before us; we geezers should read it for the same reason. The job of our times is to build a radically new world; speculative fiction helps point the way.
Wear cheap ties, shop Walmart, and read lots of science fiction. Follow this advice, friends, and you are sure to go far.
Social imagination is essentially what our leftist masters lack. They are grimly seeking to implement a social 'paradise' imagined over one hundred years ago, despite radical changes in reality. This lack of imagination is killing them (and us).
Time for some more sci fi?
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