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.
Kaor, Paul!
ReplyDeleteUnfortunately, 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
Better or worse are subjective; they exist only in relation to what some person -wants-.
ReplyDeleteAnd people want different things.
Kaor, Mr. Stirling!
ReplyDeleteBut 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