You need to read more science fiction. Nobody who reads science fiction comes out
with this crap about the end of history.
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The truth is not always useful, not always good. It’s like putting your faith in water. Yes, we need the rain, but too much can sweep you away in a flood and drown you. Like all great natural, elemental forces, the truth needs to be channeled, managed, controlled and intelligently, morally allocated.
I'm not a great believer in awards-of course the fact that I've never won one has nothing to do with it at all!
Stories set in the Culture in which Things Went Wrong tended to start with humans losing or forgetting or deliberately leaving behind their terminal. It was a conventional opening, the equivalent of straying off the path in the wild woods in one age, or a car breaking down at night on a lonely road in another.
Fuck every cause that ends in murder and children crying.