31st August 1984

I am a huge fan of Science Fiction. So, I thought I would give some brief reviews of some popular/ some of my favorite Sci-Fi in different genres before adding my own: 31st August 2084.

George Orwell 1984:

The classic, kind of original because none of us are old enough to remember anything before it! And so relevant in today's society. If you don't relate to the ministry of propaganda or the ministry or hate, then 'you just haven't been paying attention to the literature!' xD For about the past 20 years of our dystopia, people have thought that George Orwell was some kind of psychic that was reaching into the future and putting what he saw on page in 1948. Sadly, the building blocks of our current dystopia have just been in the making a little longer than we realise. George Orwell took what he saw going on around him at the time and extrapolated them to their logical conclusion. We just so happen to live in the era that has to deal with those conclusions. I think one of the most tender and important parts of the book is the protagonist's relationship with Julia. He falls in love when he doesn't even know what love is. I think this is an important message about the human condition and how love is not a construct of society, it something within that we have little control over, perhaps proof of a higher dimension, perhaps proof of God. Either way, in my mind, and perhaps Orwell's too, I think that there are two types of people: People with feelings and people without feelings. People without feelings often are or become the ruling elite (in our world as well as Orwell's) and they try to destroy feelings, making everyone as cold and dead inside as them. But it doesn't work! Because love comes from inside, it endures and some of us would rather die with love in our hearts than see the world through cold-dead eyes.

Margaret Atwood- The Handmaids Tale

It seems almost impossible to mention 1984 without someone popping up, as out of thin air, and saying: 'What about the handmaid's tale?' to which my response is usually 'what's the difference?'.
The handmaid's tale is an important book: it is basically a quite dull and tame feminine version of 1984. but only after reading the handmaid do you realise just how masculine a book 1984 is and how much we do actually need the feminine equivalent.
Having said that (and I can hear the down-doot committee sharpening their down-doots) it is really boring. It goes on for an age and half the book is dedicated to trying prove that it is not 1984 and the other half of the book is a carbon copy of 1984, released in 1984... the author goes on for some time in the prologue, explaining that the book is nothing like 1984...
If you can get past that, it isn't a bad read, and I am very much aware that trauma is soul sucking and that when you have had bad things happen to you, you don't feel very colourful. I just feel that the more controversial aspects of the book weren't covered in as much detail as they might have been. And I know what you are saying: 'Not enough genital mutation and rape for you you, sir?' Well, I guess not, at times it felt like the book still had the training wheels on.

Emily Bronte- Wuthering Heights

HAHAHAHAHHAHAHAHAHAHA hah hahahahah ahahaha. Yes! Markie Boy has manufactured another situation where he gets to talk about the greatest book ever written again!!!!!

I have written essays on this book. I wrote a fucking Odyssey about Heathcliff and how he felt about Cathy. I honestly struggle for words. I loved the framing, the book being told after the events through a third party, but you forget that that is the case for like 95% of the book.

Essentially it is a book about love in the most tragic of circumstances. Heathcliff is the bastard of Cathy's father. he brings him home when he is young, after his mother died. Cathy and Heathcliff don't know they are half-siblings. They fall in love. Their love is forbidden because Heathcliff is a deranged psychopath that has no money or land. Heathcliff goes away after finding out that Cathy is due to be married and comes back years later with money and an education.

I am not going to write out the entire book because I could and quite happily would. I suppose I want to say about it is this: This is love. If you were to shut out your mind and listen to your heart completely, this what you would get. A man and a woman that cross all boundaries to be together. And not just social and physical boundaries, but metaphysical boundaries (hence the Sci-Fi). Heathcliff hears Cathy calling to him from beyond the grave and never lets her out of his heart for a second. His love spans generation and surpasses her daughter. He digs her up from her grave because she is calling to him. This demented psychopath is the greatest male romantic lead in history. You find yourself feeling so sorry for him.

Have you ever felt love like that? A love that endures through the pain? Through the boundaries of this awful life...

Nolan Brothers: Interstellar

I couldn't just talk about books, though I could, however I want to share my song with you, so I really need to include other mediums.

'Do not go gentle into that good night, old age should burn and rave at close of day. Rage, RAGE, against the dying of the light'

I am starting to see a pattern with my favourite Science Fiction: They blur the lines of fiction and reality. You know, I think it was Plato in his book 'Eros' (A book that could easily top a list such as this one) that i first came across the idea that love and beauty are unquantifiable and a proof of a higher being or dimension. A shadow, a consequence of something we can't understand in this mortal form on this three spacial dimensions by one time dimension. Perhaps our ancestors lived in a higher dimension. Perhaps we were created by beings of higher dimensions. Perhaps we were created in a higher dimension and slipped into this dimension! At any rate, we have things within us (love, a sense of beauty and consciousness) That we have yet to explain. We don't even know why we need to sleep! Sure, we recover faster in sleep, but we recover while conscious. And dreams? We can all assign arbitrary meaning and purpose to dreams but their actual function is a mystery. (And if anyone comes at me with Sudo-Pychology I will shoot you down so fast!)

This film explores these boundaries in a way I have never seen on the big screen. Released in 2014, I think I have seen at least 3 times a year since it came out, a real master piece.

Hetzand_View: 31st August 2084

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Alright! Without further ado, I bring you much ado, about nothing!

The year is 2084 and a father and son live in kind of a 'Time Machine' post apocalyptic world. It is a fascist, post-apocalypse, war-torn state. You know- the works.

Except! There is a small difference. My official title is 'SWAMP (SWAMPY) THING'. This is a 2084 Swamp Thing origin story! I have been writing as Swamp Thing for a little while now. I take old episodes of The Swamp Thing, and there is a ton of AWWWWFUUUULLLL Swamp Thing media that I just take and turn into something new. Just use it out of context and create something original-ish.

Needless to say, I had a very brief yet animated conversation with the dudes that put your music on Spotify and they informed me that I infringe on something called 'copyright'. To which I told them, in no uncertain terms, where to stick it and carried on creating the music just the way I damn well please!

I hope you enjoyed reading what I have to say, or at very least were offended.

I wish you a pleasant dystopia and as as always, I shall be seeing you, Space Cowboy.