The Mythology of Progress

All all our views of the past are always about, always actualy about the present. If you read science fiction from 50 years ago, it is so dated and it is so obviously of its own period. Yetuknow we use the past as a source of narratives to explain the present. All of these stories are designed to give structure to the world,. To show us how to think about our present lives. Which story you choose makes a lot of difference. These are just stories we're telling ourselves. When you know one, you'rea along the lines of sort of a totalitarian cond of adi bigotn a kind of bigotry towards your own idea.