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The neo-religions of science fiction

Science Fiction

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The Myth of the Ecotopian Religion

Science fiction has been best visualized through science fiction you can go back to jjg balar's the drowning world a whole history of science fiction storytelling about climate collapse either caused by climate change or overpopulation. You can put a lot of post-apocalyptic literature and storytelling into this maybe social collapse because of oppressive capitalism. This all serves a mythic purpose for its believers and the purpose goes something like this um that areas are better world out there that we can make but for the believers they have to defeat the current world first.

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