Section III refers to:
children playacting "...in pre-electronic North America..." (p. 24);
passive entertainment, mainly television, in the mid-twentieth century;
also "...the restrictions and menaces of that unhappy period..." (p. 25);
adult psychodrama as therapy and as a retreat from restrictions, menaces and TV etc;
the Chaos ending such activities;
their revival in the mid-twenty first century.
Section II had informed us of:
minerals from Phobos launched to Earth;
a Britannic-American consortium launching the Chronos on an eight year journey to Saturn after the Vladimir had somehow been lost en route to Mercury.
On p. 30, we learn that Jerusalem Catholics are strict about some things and maybe archaistic. I am trying to isolate information relating specifically to Earth.
3 comments:
Kaor, Paul!
I would not be surprised if small children still play act: little boys playing Cowboys and Indians and little girls playing with dolls.
IMO, we are still in the Time of Chaos which began in 1914.
Perhaps Jerusalem Catholics are "archaistic" in returning to have Mass celebrated in Latin.
Ad astra! Sean
Sean,
I agree in one sense about Chaos since 1914 but Anderson uses the term to mean a breakdown post-mid-20th century.
Paul.
Kaor, Paul!
I can see that, considering how the decadence of our lunatic and debased times had their origins in the 1960's.
Ad astra! Sean
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