I think when most people see this prompt, they immediately think of modern dystopian fiction. But those are tales of hope, of successfully rebelling against dystopia.
Generic things. IKEA delivers generic things: There’s nothing more bookshelf than a Billy bookshelf. That’s the future of AI as it relates to the current popular uses.
Weird is subjective and transient and has a connotation of being disagreeable. I have a list of movies that would be on the weirder side, but most were enjoyable.
When I taught Life Skills one of the lessons was a “rules to live by” exercise. This started by playing them Baz Luhrmann’s recitation of “Always Wear Sunscreen.” I followed this up by presenting a poster of my own page of “Rules to Live By.”
If karma existed, the world would be a better place.
Why does government exist? If one assumes that government exists to serve the people, we can look at the stages of democracy at the civic and national levels.
Do cats’ behaviours fall on Maslow’s Hierarchy of Needs? For sure. Do they tell us what they want? Damn straight they do.
I’ve never been one for tattoos. When I was young, my parents held the belief that only ‘bad people’ had tattoos. It was pretty common stereotype in Hollywood too.
I don’t think most fictional worlds would be fun to vacation in, unless you’re into extreme risk. They’re the setting of a story for a reason, and that reason usually involves violence or mortal stakes of some kind.
Most readers would be surprised at how often writers abandon books, even completed ones. Follow me as we take a journey through my head-canon of the universes that I’ve either almost abandoned or am not yet ready to complete.
