Comment on Anon predicts the future
wowwoweowza@lemmy.world 3 days ago
Read classics:
Pride and Prejudice" by Jane Austen, “Moby Dick” by Herman Melville, “The Great Gatsby” by F. Scott Fitzgerald, and “1984” by George Orwell.
Start here. There are thousands.
silasmariner@programming.dev 3 days ago
Why start there with British and US authors? Why not 100 years of solitude, Disgrace, and dream of red mansions?
phoenixz@lemmy.ca 2 days ago
Because that was what he came up with. It’s fine to start with. Your selection is fine too to start with.
silasmariner@programming.dev 2 days ago
Not gonna double my response - OP deserved it more - I will say another ‘fair enough’, give you an upvote, and leave it at that
wowwoweowza@lemmy.world 2 days ago
For the same reason your user name is not buendiablo?
I guess we can all suffer a little eurocentrism from time to time? But yes — enrich the list with international voices! One of my favorite novels is THE PONDS OF WAGABA by Elichi Amadi… a little known gem any fan of George Eliot would love.
silasmariner@programming.dev 2 days ago
Good response, happy with that. Sorry about the implications, I think I just found it a fusty conservative choice. Had it been Infinite Jest and Chaucer I probably wouldn’t have bothered responding. Sometimes the idea of ‘classics’ can seem… narrow and dull. Just wanted to mitigate the notion it was all brown bread (not that I don’t love your suggestions tho’)
wowwoweowza@lemmy.world 1 day ago
Getting back to the AI entertainment nightmare predicted in the image… what does it mean if all that happens… it reminds me of all the fat useless humans in WALL-E. It’s like what is the point of anything if that actually IS the future?