When I was a kid reading comic books, I hated those alternate future stories, which I saw as a cheap way of avoiding the consequences of telling a real story, but science fiction just won't stop becoming factual. It does seem that all the O-regions funnel back to the same point of origin. Unified Field Theory, Theory of Everything, physics keeps trying to tie it all together, a search analogous (or is it identical?) to the search for god. It's harder to suggest that the Universe operates under one law at one moment, and under some other "truth" at another moment. As long as we believe that there is an actual explanation for the way things are (even if we can't quite understand it), then we believe. As discussed elsewhere, deconstruction, et al, have not discredited, but have only critiqued belief, basically in terms of the limitations of viewpoint. Even when we admit ignorance, we can only operate out of knowledge, such as we have, which is perhaps why these philosophies often lack in practice the humility that they might properly promote.
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- alex 3-29-2001 5:25 pm