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A sociologist named Alvin Toffler wrote a book called "Future Shock' back in the 1960s. He predicted that there was going to be a massive shift from the Industrial Age to the Digital Era. A science fiction writer named John Brunner read Toffler's book and wrote "Stand On Zanzibar" a novel about the early 21st Century.
Brunner's book has things like school shooters, legalized marijuana, AI, LGBT+ becoming mainstream, etc etc.
I'm conflicted about your comment. Why do school shootings and LGBT acceptance belong in the same sentence? I know you're going to come back with some degenerate nonsense so don't even start with that
I think you're reading subtext which don't exist
https://youtu.be/cDPnsTRAvIM?list=RDcDPnsTRAvIM
I was just listing things that were in the novel.
Thanks for seeing that.
Well that will be good news to all queer people. It's so wonderful to hear that discrimination is over.
As a queer person I don't speak for all of us, but I didn't read any subtext there
It's wonderful that you're generous enough to realize you don't speak for all of us. That's truly a big step. Next step is realizing that your freedoms, such as they are, were paid for in blood
https://youtu.be/cDPnsTRAvIM?list=RDcDPnsTRAvIM
It's possible to talk about two different things in the same sentence without them being actually connected.