All this (including the response) is very unpleasant but not much of a surprize. The people of this planet have been showing signs of getting stupider by the day and the abandonment of the future for the past is just one more piece of the puzzle.
The response from the theives and kings website was a little more disturbing than usual though. Like so many dangerous arguments his seems valid, but it really isn't. I remember reading "The War of the Worlds" and being astonished by how closely the future depicted therein was to our present time. We didn't stop looking towards the future when we achieved and surpassed what Wells had predicted, we simply thought out new and more wonderous things and then we achieved some of them too. Now, people have chosen the impossible realms of middle-earth to drown out their God-given intelligence. His Bilbo Baggins quote sums up the modern mentality well, people these day would rather pretend something is not there before they have to pull their heads out of their behinds to see it.
Of course, we haven't achieved everything that stories like Star Trek had predicted, we have yet to aquire common sense, a sense of long-term self-preservation and civilization.
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The response from the theives and kings website was a little more disturbing than usual though. Like so many dangerous arguments his seems valid, but it really isn't. I remember reading "The War of the Worlds" and being astonished by how closely the future depicted therein was to our present time. We didn't stop looking towards the future when we achieved and surpassed what Wells had predicted, we simply thought out new and more wonderous things and then we achieved some of them too. Now, people have chosen the impossible realms of middle-earth to drown out their God-given intelligence. His Bilbo Baggins quote sums up the modern mentality well, people these day would rather pretend something is not there before they have to pull their heads out of their behinds to see it.
Of course, we haven't achieved everything that stories like Star Trek had predicted, we have yet to aquire common sense, a sense of long-term self-preservation and civilization.