You gotta wonder what's wrong with our society...

[mousme]

You have wonder what's wrong with our society when so many people envision a brutal apocalypse as the only solution to our troubles. After Armaggedon, people seem to believe, we're going to settle into some sort of agrarian utopia (after we shoot all the zombies starving looters/suburbanites, that is) and live happily ever after in a world without yuppies, SUVs, or water shortages.

Have things become so bleak that we can't envision things getting any better without most of the world dying off?

Comments

[mousme.livejournal.com]

Oh, dude, Moon is a Harsh Mistress is not only made of win, but has exactly the kind of characters you would relate to. I highly recommend it for you. Haven't read any other Heinlein, but thoroughly enjoyed that one. :D

Crunchy seems to have more immediate problems on her hands (husband has cancer, I believe), so I can understand that she might not "get it" yet. :)

[fearsclave.livejournal.com]

Heinlein characters that I'd relate to? Shoot me now, please :). I burned out on Heinlein a while back; he just plain annoys me now.

[ai731.livejournal.com]

Moon is a Harsh Mistress is *the* *only* Heinlein I've ever managed to read. I like it a lot and I've read it more than once. Every other Heinlein I've ever tried to read has made me want to throw it across the room. Hard.

[fearsclave.livejournal.com]

I used to like Heinlein. Then I stopped being an adolescent boy.