South Africans patrol their territory with rifles but the Peace Authority prevents them from attacking anyone else.
The Chinese, having failed to adjust to the combination of large population with high technology, huddle "'...like hogs in a pen.'" (p. 148)
The Russians have split into "'...a hundred religious sects.'" (ibid.)
Americans have square miles of crowded projects tenements, grow algae in Lake Superior, have legalized crime and can even be licensed for crooked gambling.
So far, we have reread only thirteen pages of this short story but it seems to have the density of a future history series.
Is our world less mad?
2 comments:
Kaor, Paul!
The STAND ON ZANZIBAR hypothesis is obsolete, the underpopulation crisis may well be one of the real crises we face.
And we are certainly menaced by jihadist Islam and many other types of fanatics.
Ad astra! Sean
Sean,
We are menaced by more than that!
Paul.
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