When I was a boy and read my first Sci-Fi story, writers told stories about Utopia, the land of plenty where men were all brothers(women still played second fiddle, even in the future) and war was a thing of the past. We went about the Galaxy doing good.
Somewhere the picture changed. Now a good story begins, "As he walked the rubble strewn streets, he realized that he was the last man alive(still no women).
All we hear is what the world is like after the Holocaust, or invasions by weird monsters who really don't have enough brains to paddle a canoe. And in Outer Space? It looks like Iraq.
What ever happened to our beautiful dreams? Unless we begin reaching for that Utopia again we will assure that our children will wallow in despair.
Curious Carl
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