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What an excellent reference. Here's a link to The Waiting Ground: https://readerslibrary.org/wp-content/uploads/The-Waiting-Grounds.pdf

J.G. Ballard, the William Burroughs of England, finally achieved world recognition when Steven Spielberg filmed his autobiography (from childhood until age 15) in Empire of the Sun. Ballard had been a visionary iconoclast since the 1950s, beginning with his trilogy of disaster novels, The Burning World, The Drowned World, and The Crystal World, and most notoriously, his automobile death-wish classic, Crash, about the psychopathology of the car crash.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Empire_of_the_Sun_(novel)

I was pleasantly disturbed when I saw the movie "Crash" when it came out.

https://youtu.be/UN9lpOEqg04?si=_TCvMDxEp_YyBc_t

Nothing is new. Our species is strange and mysterious, conscious, rational, logical, passionate, emotional, master of tools like abstract symbolic language, imaginative, creative, violent, a conquering apex predator full of contradictions, and not long for this world.

Homo storyteller's corpus will probably be lost once we are gone, and what other than our omnicidal species could appreciate them?

What hears a supernova?

Would the Universe notice our demise more than we would be cognisant and concerned about losing a mammal species or damaging our microbiome? We get agitated by our problems, get overly excited about solutions to symptoms, and can barely comprehend the causes of our predicament.

Homo reactionary is part and parcel of complex emergent systems, and so hubristic he thinks he can control them.

We stumble stochastically along the fireline of hypernormal stimuli until we encounter something that produces panic. Then we struggle until we are numb or dead, but not before we do whatever damage is necessary to survive another day. And for some of us, not before we've lived "a wonderful life."

And it's all so poignant.

I'm making a pilot for a TV series set in the "present," which flashes back to the early 20th century and forward 300K years.