This evening, Vespucci and I were discussing this
http://www.johntitor.com/Apparently, some while back, this fellow turned up proclaiming that he was a time traveller from 2036.
Initially this sounds very stupid and I don't think anyone could credibly believe his story, but it makes for some interesting reading.
He predicts the downfall of American imperial policy, nuclear war and subsequent recovery and a regression to an agriculturally based society in the USA with a more libertarian version of the current system.
He seems to suggest a lot of class conflictionary causes behind his war as well as suggesting that it will be peasant farmers that play an integral role in the reformation of society and within a civil war in the United States.
.Q. Will you readily be able to identify the enemy? .A. They will be the ones arresting and holding people without due process
This rings eerily true, but is far from unexpected. However, it illustrates a reality that so many people today fail to see.
The world predicted here reminds me of a lot of things. It got me thinking about other people's envisaged futures and fictional worlds: Orwell's 1984, the little known Illuminatus trilogy (made famous by the term Fnord), the Wachowskis' Matrix and films like Soylent Green and Blade Runner. (Book of Revelations also ends up here as well I suppose :p )
Really, the purpose of this thread is to see what other people's opinions of this are on this John Titor thing. Equally, I would love to be able to use it as a place to discuss Socialism in relation to fictional works (a somewhat romantic if infantile fascination, made worse by my inability to sit down and read the sort of amount of Marxist literature I would like to). I suppose fiction is a visceral representation of ideology and world view which gives it some value, at least.
Yours Comradly, Hartman
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