10-30-2009, 04:38 AM
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What do you think of the sc-fi and fantasy surge in popular Western literature?<!--QuoteEnd--><!--QuoteEEnd-->
Essentially history of Western Europe is history of Christianity. What they did was to kill all their pagan myths which are really imagination. After Renaissance, Enlightenment and Scientific Revolution they revived their imagination with Science Fiction and Fantasy. However even here they back projected their founding ideology and one can see it if one peels the onion.
For example History channel in last few weeks had two episodes on "Clash of the Gods" a deconstruction of Lord of the Rings and Star Wars.
Except for Jules Verne's sci fiction I am yet to find a non Christianised, sans Judeo-Christian underlayer for this genre.
The Foundation is in a sense the transfer of Roman ideas to Western Civilization.
What do you think of the sc-fi and fantasy surge in popular Western literature?<!--QuoteEnd--><!--QuoteEEnd-->
Essentially history of Western Europe is history of Christianity. What they did was to kill all their pagan myths which are really imagination. After Renaissance, Enlightenment and Scientific Revolution they revived their imagination with Science Fiction and Fantasy. However even here they back projected their founding ideology and one can see it if one peels the onion.
For example History channel in last few weeks had two episodes on "Clash of the Gods" a deconstruction of Lord of the Rings and Star Wars.
Except for Jules Verne's sci fiction I am yet to find a non Christianised, sans Judeo-Christian underlayer for this genre.
The Foundation is in a sense the transfer of Roman ideas to Western Civilization.