Ustopia
Monday, December 20, 2021
There is always the possibility that, as Margaret Atwood warned, humans will be ‘ruined as God’, when they see themselves capable of uniting optimism with Certainty.
EVERY December, we gaze at crystal balls, or something similar. Soothsaying manuals. We ask what is going to happen to us in the future – and forget to ask what is the use of knowing what is going to happen. Margaret Atwoood, the novelist who has written much about frightening futures, warns: ‘If you knew what was going to happen, if you knew everything that was going to happen next—if you knew in advance the consequences o
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