The Future
Consistent Library Recommendation.
”But she didn’t go on long, because she’d messed up relationships and herself before by imagining the future after the first date. Her therapist had explained that human beings long for certainty so much that we’re willing to even undermine and sabotage ourselves in the search for it.” Page 64.
All too familiar, the dance before the date, the heightened expectations of non-reality.
Upcoming horoscopes, “The fated sky/gives us free scope…
Always been a boom time for end times, too.
Can never go wrong predicting the end times. Makes for a good bestseller.
How much is fiction?
“The mental health of the world continued to deteriorate—depressed and anxious people were less interested in engaging with real problems, more willing to escape to fantasy worlds, more willing to believe hoaxes and conspiracy theories.” Page 235.
Just how much?
Thoroughly interesting speculative fiction, building on our tech intwined worlds.