Sci fi gibberish or a glance a
Sci-fi gibberish or a glance aScience fiction: gibberish or a glance at oneself?
Since the very rudiment of mankind humans have dreamed… Dreamed of understanding nature's phenomena, dreamed of finding out the secrets of the infinite universe and dreamed of perception of their own place in its vast continuity. These dreams, passed orally through the lips of generations eventually took form of what we now call a myth.
Now, let's analyze what science fiction is. I think it wouldn't be hard to agree that it is a certain kind of myth adjusted to the current segment of time, but nevertheless containing essential features and elements of a classical myth. The question then arises: why science fiction is not treated and valued as such?
The answer probably lies in the conservatism of the senile members of our society who are sickly attached to biblical legends. Times do change, people do change, so why can't we accept the variation of a myth?
Sci-fi, as a part of mythology, is a reflector of our comprehension and the fruits of self-exploration. As myths, sci-fi stories don't have to be specimens of refined literature. Its literary form is not the essence. As a famous psychologist Carl Gustav Jung has put in his works, a myth is like a mirror, reflecting the messages sent by our subconsciousness to our mind, projecting them through the cells of our mental network and translating them from the language of the archetypal symbols to the individual tongue of one's soul.
So, treating science fiction as gibberish would be a bit far-fetched. The problem, which it really faces is that sci-fi as any branch of mythology can be used to manipulate minds, and it is really a powerful...
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