See Wikipedia’s nice summary of The Marching Morons from 1961. The story predicted Trump, (right down to the Real Estate Developer) but Kornbluth needed suspended animation for a few hundred years for the tech to make the story viable. However, his novella, is really about sociological issues. The “elites” made the anti-hero World Dictator, when he convinced them that he was “the only who can fix it.”
Re: The sci-fi futures we didn't get
Re: The sci-fi futures we didn't get
Re: The sci-fi futures we didn't get
See Wikipedia’s nice summary of The Marching Morons from 1961. The story predicted Trump, (right down to the Real Estate Developer) but Kornbluth needed suspended animation for a few hundred years for the tech to make the story viable. However, his novella, is really about sociological issues. The “elites” made the anti-hero World Dictator, when he convinced them that he was “the only who can fix it.”