Tuesday, 6 October 2020

Change

"Flight to Forever."

A hundred years later, the house and the village are gone but:

"After all, every sensible man knew that things changed with time. There would be good and evil in the future as there had been in the past. "-And they lived happily ever after" was pure myth. The important thing was change, an unending flux out of which all could come." (p. 213)

I believed this very strongly when I first read sf and Poul Anderson in the 1960s. What matters is change. It is an unending flux. Everything can come out of it. I am less optimistic now than I was then about the immediate future but it has become even clearer than it was before that everything changes - and there are people who want to make life better, not worse. Tomorrow is the first day of a new future history.

3 comments:

Sean M. Brooks said...

Kaor, Paul!

Unfortunately, there are also people who, while sincerely desiring or trying to make the world a better place, are in fact making it worse. Because the ideas and policies they advocate or implement are catastrophically WRONG.

Ad astra! Sean

S.M. Stirling said...

Better or worse are subjective; they exist only in relation to what some person -wants-.

And people want different things.

Sean M. Brooks said...

Kaor, Mr. Stirling!

But I believe the ideas and policies advocated by the Democratic party in the US are OBJECTIVELY bad, not just because I also dislike them.

Ad astra! Sean