IIJOSEPHXII

Are they predicting the future, or are they predictive programming your minds, so that when the people who publish books, produce movies and broadcast TV shows set in a sci-fi future make changes to society that benefit the powers that be, you will be a) familiarised with those changes and think they are a natural progression, or b) unable to mount a resistance to changes that deprive you of your freedoms?

Gringojones

By that logic, the most published sci fi author must be telling the most truth.

I guess it's time for us all to convert to Scientology.

TwitterBannedIt

A Miracle of rare device ;)

Caliope

I prefer the post-apocalypse fiction of writers such as "A. American", which q.v.

Goys-R-Us

Ray Bradbury

Spook

How you gonna get published unless TPTB allow it? Real truth is found in obscure, never heard of self published or small press published books that aren't promoted.

Conspirologist

Yes, but I am almost 100% sure he was very smart, and managed to become famous. That's what I would do If I had his same talent as a writer. The problem is not how much you know, but how much talented you are to tell it all and get recognized without being spot by TPTB.

shbbougter

Good thread and subject, and I agree that sci-fi is a genre for discussing taboo subjects in public.

TeddyJackson

Star Trek Deep Space 9 is about the Jews. The Bajorans are how Jews project themselves, religious people who underwent terrible occupation and slavery and genocide. The Ferengi are how normal people see the jews, disgusting merchants who cheat everyone without a hint of guilt and follow a long list of crazy old rules and treat their own women as second class. The Founders/Changlings/Shape shifters are who the Jews really are, the ones controlling everything behind the scenes who make others to fight for them, the Jem-hadar, and those who interact with the rest of the peoples, the Vorta. Their name is the Dominion. They are all from a different part of the galaxy and get to the Alpha quadrant via a wormhole.

TrialsAndTribulation

Ray Bradbury I've always considered to be more of a poet and fableist than a science fiction writer. Philip K. Dick, on the other hand, create a new genre in science fiction that was so farsighted and so paranoid yet realistic that it took the public decades to catch up to what he was saying. After reading much of his work and a few biographies, I'm confident that in the 60s and 70s he was targeted by the FBI and routinely harassed. Yes, he wrote under the influence of stimulants for over a decade, and he did indeed have what one might charitably call a temperamental personality, and he was well aware of his paranoia, but he was also very self aware in many ways most people are not. After he stopped using stimulants (which he mentioned in the afterword to his book "A Scanner Darkly"), his output slowed, but his work was more carefully considered. His experience that he refers to as "2-3-74", which was a four hour vision that changed him for the remaining eight years of his life, confounded him so thoroughly that he wrote over 100,000 words in an exegesis.

The phenomenon he called VALIS eventually became his last novel. I am convinced that he was subjected to CIA mind control harassment through some ultra high wavelength communication that used his front apartment window and medium. He was very close to the truth, but appeared mad, so relatively few paid attention until decades later.

shbbougter

There are other groups besides the CIA and FBI, groups of ordinary civilians who have unusual personal habits and belong to subcultures that routinely stalk and subjugate people in their communities. Philip K Dick would have encountered and developed an awareness of these groups not only because he was generally perceptive and intelligent, but more specifically because he plumbed the depths of his consciousness for creative inspiration.

TrialsAndTribulation

Possible, but PKD had an extensive FBI file compiled when he was alive. This is true, along with the fact that the CIA was actively testing mind control devices such as I described in the 70s. There is a device that transmits information soundlessly directly to a person's head. It's available for purchase and was actually used in Times Square very briefly to advertise a film (I think) that featured paranoia and "hearing voices". As pedestrians walked through a narrow focused beam, they would received the transmission from the device. I'm convinced PKD was subjected to this sort of harassment and experimentation.

ardvarcus

therefore his writings are not always clear and concise, but still contain useful informations.

There is no such word as "informations" -- it is "information." Same deal with "elites." And "maths." What is this recent fetish to put the letter "s" on the end of words that don't need it?

TrialsAndTribulation

Don'ts be a grammars nazi.

Caliope

It is an indication that American English may not be his First or Birth Language. This use of "informations" is very common with people whose First Language is German. N.B.: when I write in English, I'm very careful to not even think about what I am writing in my First Language, which was not English.

Goys-R-Us

I don't knows.