Why romance in science fiction does not work

🌹The whole point of going into space is to escape the confines of the world we live in! What is the point of kissing if one is amount greater mysteries than one can fathom! One needs romance to make life not so hohum, but life in space is so great, that nobody will desire mere terrestrial concerns there

Science fiction double feature

We are the Chosen Ones!

Trump the President has recently discovered that he is the Chosen One, which is a title that is usually used in some sort of Messiah sense of the word. It is a term that implies that one has entered into a cult of a few knowing persons, who, because of some ability or an other, have become destined to great things. We can think about Neo from the Matrix, or Darth Vader, or the two sons of Adam and two daughters of Eve in Narnia, or even Like Skywalker. One can even think about Socrates or Adam, or Peter or the Buddha or Jesus. But Trump? And how does his job at working this out with China count as being something worthy of making him the Chosen One? Does he have an inflatable ego here? Perhaps, we have gotten it all wrong, and he does have some kind of a Chosen One Purpose to do, but I doubt it. It does make one think about how these Chosen Few have to suffer through fire 🔥 and ice 🍦 and slay dragons on some quest. Could Trumpy  Bear Kill a dragon? Hmmm.....

The Fracture of Nothing

Nihilism is the belief of nothing. It is the belief that nothing has any real existence or any real importance. It is the belief that we cannot understand the reality that we are in because of our emotional attachment to it. And emotional attachment s keep you from understanding the world. We are slaves to our passions. We are slaves to our passions. World War I taught us that the Romantic view of the Past, the view of dulce et decorum est was just silly. People die in wars. People die in wars in rather unromantic ways, such as gas and VDs. We need to escape the Matrix. We need to free our minds. Nihilism can help us do that. It helps us see that the world is merely phenomenological. It is merely what can be seen, tasted and touched. Romanticism provides nobody anything but more and more babyish flirtations, and while flirting may be good for teens, it does not make a real life. We need a real world.