The Third Term - A Cautionary Tale

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  • "People
  • think
  • -
  • wrongly
  • -
  • that
  • speculative
  • fiction
  • is
  • about
  • predicting
  • the
  • future,
  • but
  • it
  • isn't;
  • or
  • if
  • it
  • is,
  • it
  • tends
  • to
  • do
  • a
  • rotten
  • job
  • of
  • it.
  • Futures
  • are
  • huge
  • things
  • that
  • come
  • with
  • many
  • elements
  • and
  • a
  • billion
  • variables,
  • and
  • the
  • human
  • race
  • has
  • a
  • habit
  • ...
  • What
  • speculative
  • fiction
  • is
  • good
  • at
  • is
  • not
  • the
  • future
  • but
  • the
  • present
  • -
  • taking
  • an
  • aspect
  • of
  • it
  • that
  • troubles
  • or
  • is
  • dangerous
  • and
  • extrapolating
  • that
  • aspect
  • into
  • something
  • that
  • allows
  • the
  • people
  • of
  • that
  • time
  • to
  • see
  • what
  • they
  • are
  • doing
  • from
  • a
  • different
  • angle
  • and
  • from
  • a
  • different
  • place.
  • It's
  • cautionary."
  • -
  • Introduction
  • to
  • Fahrenheit
  • 451,
  • Neil
  • Gaiman.
  • I
  • was
  • not
  • that
  • wide
  • of
  • the
  • mark
  • given
  • the
  • events
  • of
  • January
  • 6,
  • 2021,
  • and
  • that
  • Third
  • Term
  • is
  • still
  • a possibility.
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