---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, <noozguru@...> wrote :
Probably not going to find good science fiction these days because what was the realm of science fiction is now our everyday existence. If you extrapolate and project into the future you get more of an apocalyptic story. And art has been democratized so anyone can publish even if it is just to a website. Hard to stand out in the crowd. This is a very astute statement and one which I think is largely true. We seem to live in a time when we have become jaded by the barrage of media and the fact that we can hear and see so much - both real and imagined. Videos and film and photos are presumed doctored in some way. Even the news stories are suspect as some sort of spoof or parody. We don't seem to ever really be sure of anything anymore since the ability to manipulate sound and image and create all sorts of effects is superior to our ability to discriminate between what is real and what is not. Consequently there comes a saturation point. We become unable to go beyond what others before us have created or written; it is "hard to stand out in the crowd." I think with saturation can come hopelessness and apathy. These characteristics are a short step away from visions and obsession with what must surely be the end, the apocalyptic inevitability. </ (Message over 64 KB, truncated)
