Crichton saw modernities race for the lowest common denominator coming decades ago.
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Crichton was at his heart a futurist. He wrote about brain control, epidemics, the climate crisis control, genetic manipulation amongst other things.
Gone too soon, too
Yeah but my understanding underlying message was “warning.” I seen a few people talking about him lately and was clearly tapped into the right conscious stream
My take on him was he was more politically left but was very analytical. I remember in his intro for "State of Fear" he stated how he started off trying to write a straight up standard climate catastrophe book but his research on the topic made him change his mind.
People like that are rare but useful and should be supported as The standard for their kind.
Every now and then very rarely I meet a lefty like that who I think that I can work with and reason with.
A lot of "left" people are very well thought out. The baseline difference is our core belief dichotomy - do you see human nature as a flaw that can be overcome with enlightenment, or as a necessary calculation to consider in your systems?
Lefties believe that everyone will become better under better conditions. We know they do not.
That's Deus Ex levels of prophetic.
Interesting. Feels like he's talking about Reddit. Except that Reddit isn't trying to bring everyone into the hive-mind. Instead it's just rejecting everyone who doesn't immediately conform to any and all mainstream beliefs. Which does leave plenty of room for small innovative groups.
That isnt how it started. Thats how it became. It began as any other thing. A place where a community and culture developed that then became what he is talking about and then devolved into what you are talking about.
He described the Kalergi plan, globohomo, idiocracy and the mouse utopia experiment but without using language that will cause leftists to get all trigglypuff on him, basically.
No, the Farscape character.
I don't think it's that far off from something that Crichton would say.
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Yes
Which book of his is this from?
Jurassic Park
Huh, can't say I remember that bit. But in my defense, I haven't read it since it came out!
It's been a while since I read it too, but I'm 99% sure that's Ian Malcolm from Jurassic Park. The character had some based rants in the book. Seem to remember him dying at the end though...
I think it's heavily implied he died but it was retconned when Spielberg wanted to make a sequel so Crichton wrote 'The Lost World' and said Malcolm survived.
It's been awhile since I read it as well but I think Grant asks someone about Malcolm and they shake their head.
It's like this weird animation which lacks a decent full length better quality video apart from one copyright claimed by lasso group. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0Vyfg55WDU0
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L-gGpWpra-g
This is why i hate "innanet culcha"