"If there was any good in man, it was that he kept on struggling against nature..." Personally, I have always found this tendency in humanity to be its worst. It's the reason so many living creatures, including us, are facing, if not total extinction then a rather hard future, because of climate change, destruction of rain-forest, pollution, greed, etc. This is the way some of my generation (the baby-boomers) came to view the old Judaic/Christian philosophy that human beings were something special, made in the image of some "omnipotent god", 'in this world, but not of this world', and all the rest of such traditional blah-blah-blah. Yeah, we grew up indoctrinated by the hubris and megalomania emptied into our collective heads by sci-fi programs as X Minus One. Luckily, we were later able to see "transcend" such arrogant BS.
Today's Science Fiction is more to your liking! It is fatalistic, pessimistic, misanthropic, and anal on environmental issues. P.S. Science Fiction is a very atheistic genre since the days of H G Wells
Today's Science Fiction is more to your liking! It is fatalistic, pessimistic, misanthropic, and anal on environmental issues. P.S. Science Fiction is a very atheistic genre since the days of H G Wells
I think you misread the statement. The struggle against nature references the struggle against those immutable and implacable forces that can so easily wipe out humanity. Earthquake, tsunami, disease. Hunger, isolation, imprisonment. Individual humans and humanity as a whole fights to survive. There is plenty of scifi from 50's which shows humanity's role as a caretaker of the earth and the life living on it. These ideas we think are so modern have around longer than any of us have been living.
Excellent quality for an old time radio program.
Thank you! you just made this space cadet very happy! :)
X Minus One represents the Golden Age of American Sci-Fi.
Today all we have is this post-Blade Runner crapola!
Thanks for uploading this, it has been tough to find.
I love stuff like this. Thanks for posting this. 1 Zan disliked this.
Not a bad yarn as far as Sci-Fi stories go. Now if only Neill Blomkamp would make a movie of that story.
The best radio version by far!
Adam & Eve with a helpful serpent & a little Space Age Noah's Ark thrown in. Fun episode.
Not too bad, but I like the Dimension X version of this story better.
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"If there was any good in man, it was that he kept on struggling against nature..."
Personally, I have always found this tendency in humanity to be its worst. It's the reason so many living creatures, including us, are facing, if not total extinction then a rather hard future, because of climate change, destruction of rain-forest, pollution, greed, etc.
This is the way some of my generation (the baby-boomers) came to view the old Judaic/Christian philosophy that human beings were something special, made in the image of some "omnipotent god", 'in this world, but not of this world', and all the rest of such traditional blah-blah-blah.
Yeah, we grew up indoctrinated by the hubris and megalomania emptied into our collective heads by sci-fi programs as X Minus One. Luckily, we were later able to see "transcend" such arrogant BS.
Today's Science Fiction is more to your liking! It is fatalistic, pessimistic, misanthropic, and anal on environmental issues.
P.S. Science Fiction is a very atheistic genre since the days of H G Wells
Today's Science Fiction is more to your liking! It is fatalistic, pessimistic, misanthropic, and anal on environmental issues.
P.S. Science Fiction is a very atheistic genre since the days of H G Wells
I think you misread the statement. The struggle against nature references the struggle against those immutable and implacable forces that can so easily wipe out humanity. Earthquake, tsunami, disease. Hunger, isolation, imprisonment. Individual humans and humanity as a whole fights to survive.
There is plenty of scifi from 50's which shows humanity's role as a caretaker of the earth and the life living on it. These ideas we think are so modern have around longer than any of us have been living.
crap