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514- Literature that Celebrates Fiction in Science (Free)

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🗓️ 21 June 2023

⏱️ 57 minutes

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In 1953 the Hugo Award was created to honor “notable achievement” in science fiction. That almost sounds like an award based on how well one can be fooled into accepting fantasy as scientific. The actual award takes the shape of a rocket ship and is named after Hugo Gernsback who in 1926 published the first (more...)

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0:00.0

Go! Oh. Oh, Crow, Crow,

0:47.0

Crow, Crow. Kroll. Kroll. Kroll.

0:54.0

Belief is the anatomy is the enemy of knowing.

1:01.0

All right, man, I welcome ProTruh7 radio. This is episode 514. It's me and

1:06.4

Jason today and we're going to be covering the kind of predictive programming

1:11.5

that's been built into the science fiction genre since basically

1:15.8

it's outset.

1:17.3

And this differs from older versions that people might equate things with like Greek mythology is a good example.

1:23.8

When we look at Greek mythology there are lessons typically within the storyline even though it can

1:30.4

seem very fantasy-based or sci-fi-based. There are similes, there are lessons to be learned,

1:37.0

there's a lot of metaphor going on, and in other words, Greek myth and things like that had a purpose.

1:44.4

Whereas when we get into the sci-fi genre,

1:48.4

it's really leading a mind astray,

1:51.2

getting a mind to throw out common sense and things that should be acceptable, and it normalizes it.

1:57.6

And we're going to go back way, way back to its beginning, and I didn't look it up but we have an episode that kind of shows the

2:06.1

beginnings of sci-fi and comic books in this country and it all centered around the same

2:11.5

circles that we have talked about so frequently.

2:14.3

Anyhow, welcome, Jason.

2:15.7

And a very hot good morning.

2:17.8

Yeah, it's getting warm here too, finally, but we've got a lot of ground to cover here. You did a lot of research on this one.

2:24.6

So let's start off by saying that we cannot possibly mention every story that has been written

2:30.1

that has some sort of science fiction element to it, especially where it may relate to some sort of artificial life taking place, which a lot of these actually do.

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