"'...your wisemen talked of ways to end hunger, sickness, danger, and sorrow.'" (p. 695)
"'Suddenly the world was made great, that had been so narrow.'" (ibid.)
We take hungerlessness, health, safety, satisfaction and knowledge for granted but what would it be like to lose them or never to have had them? And the ending of hunger etc is not yet complete.
Every word of a futuristic sf story can be applied to the time in which it was written and to the changing times in which it continues to be read. There is a reason why the lowland Lokonese fight incessant wars. The Allied Planets can end that reason.
It takes longer in real life but we have the same goals.
2 comments:
I don't take them for granted. I walked past dead and dying famine victims when I was 10 years old.
Taking for granted the absence of many diseases is a problem, because some people stop doing the things that made those diseases absent or even actively oppose those things.
Anti-vax anyone?
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