What We Can Learn About Life From Science Fiction
By DONALD DeMARCO It is paradoxical that science fiction writers can teach us something about life that is nonfictional. On the other hand, politicians can, and often do, turn the nonfictional into fiction. Science fiction writers, imaginative as they are, never lose sight of reality. Politicians, in their eagerness to win the approval of the masses, often stray from reality.In contrast with the politics of convenience (and what is more inconvenient than morality?) one of science fiction’s important lessons is that size does not diminish the value of human life. No matter how small a person is, he remains a person.In the 1966 movie, Fantastic Voyage, a surgical team is microminiaturized and injected through a hypodermic needle into a sick…Continue Reading