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.