Week 14 : Science Fiction Parody and Satire

“This highlights one of the larger roles that science fiction plays in our society and reminds us that science fiction is really never about the future but always about the present.”

I absolutely love the way you phrased the requirements for his week. That’s why science fiction has always been one of my favorite genres as well as comedy and when put together we can realize just how ridiculous we are about our culture and our purpose in general. This is one of the reasons I really enjoyed listening to Hitchhikers Guide because it reminds us just how silly we all are with the classic dry, wry British humor. I think a good way to define the attitude that is taken in the broadcasts as existentialist in a way. It harps on the silly people with there silly preoccupations and takes many topics that seem to be ground breaking, like say the end of the world, or the answer to the universe, and makes it all one big joke because in the end it is! Nothing really matters. And the only things that matter are each individual’s perception of what matters in their consciousness. This also plays into a thought I have about the past and the future. In my mind they are inherently both the same thing because they are both technically the present. So any projection we have of the future is like you said just a projection of the present and the same thing as the past. So that in the end the only thing that really “IS” is the present because the future and past are all illusions.  There have been philosopher after scientist after genius that have articulated in beautiful poem, equation, and writing that have tried to tell us the important of the here and how but also how in the end, trivial, it all truly is too worry. Worry stems from fear and most people fear what they cannot understand like death for example. But if we all realized that death is not the opposite of life but the opposite of birth and that life is all there is and all there has ever been then we can learn to live and realize the only truth with is the here., the now, and the present. So enjoy it. Laugh at it. Because it doesn’t matter. Or it does. It’s your choice.