14 February 2008
We are so poking the bear…
Posted by Toner under: Nerd Culture .
I’ve noticed a lot of things happening lately, that, in sci-fi, horror and/or fantasy stories are usually harbingers of doom… Lets look at some shall we:
Making a black hole in a lab - In Brian Keene’s “The Rising” the coming Zombie war is a direct result of scientist creating a [tag]black hole[t/ag] under lab conditions which somehow rips open the fabric of space and time allowing evil spirits to inhabit and reanimate our dead.
Custom Virus = World ending plague!!!! The headlines have been legion lately (no pun intended) about all sorts of crazy stuff being done to viruses in labs around the world. Can you say Hot Zone? I am Legend? The Stand?
The United States, last bastion of hope and freedom becomes some sort of bizaro-America, (like when the cast of the Enterprise meets themselves in the alternate reality where it’s all war all the time) where we’re really nasty, torture people and invade countries bringing upon ourselves the end of civilization as we know it…
Environmental Neglect: People have crapped-up the environment to the point that to survive we must either live in domes or find another planet… Logan 5, two days to sanctuary…
The animals are turning on us…
All the corporations merge into uber corporations who eventually have their own armies and rule the planet with an angry, juice-bar fueled , scooter riding fist.
Our own stupidity kills us.
Be careful out there folks…
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