What if speech was never confounded into languages? What if contagions were unheard of? What if weapons of mass destruction were obsolete?
People less imaginative than myself tell me that the world would be boring without languages. It would be overpopulated without disease. To render weapons of mass destruction obsolete can only mean to replace them with even more destructive weapons.
I can only imagine what the world would be like if my questions were answered. It is already boring with its countless languages. Take a marker and put a dot on a globe and that shows me how “overpopulated” the world is. Weapons of mass destruction are not obsolete if replaced with weapons of mass destruction… and destroying everything is as bad as they can get, no matter what.
We have the world the way it already is. The unimaginative already have languages, contagions and weapons of mass destruction. What comes of these needlessly needful things? We need not imagine. We can see for ourselves.
I write fiction. I answer the questions I asked. The
worlds I imagine are not boring. On the contrary: They thrive quite well without
gibberish, sickness and apocalypse. I do mean as settings for stories. Unlike
in our real world, the problems are fun.
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If you make things too realistic, they become miserable. Stories are best when they are about real people living in a world just a little better than the one we live in. When bad things happen, they should serve a purpose and not just drain one's energy.
ReplyDeleteTotally. Reality falls short. We should imagine better. It is all nonsense unless rooted in reality, however. Realism is a firm foundation.
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