In Liu Cixin’s The Three-Body Problem, an astrophysicist, radicalized by reading Silent Spring and being persecuted during the Cultural Revolution, decides the human race is irredeemable and sells it out to an alien invader. I started reading the book a few weeks ago; now it has become grimly timely. Demagogues now would have us believe that the virus is an alien invasion force while also trying to sell millions of us out to it as quickly as possible. We already have intensive air pollution that ruins lung function and truncates lives; coronavirus just promises to accelerate the process: fast capitalism in its apotheosis.
Deserted cities of the heart
Deserted cities of the heart
Deserted cities of the heart
In Liu Cixin’s The Three-Body Problem, an astrophysicist, radicalized by reading Silent Spring and being persecuted during the Cultural Revolution, decides the human race is irredeemable and sells it out to an alien invader. I started reading the book a few weeks ago; now it has become grimly timely. Demagogues now would have us believe that the virus is an alien invasion force while also trying to sell millions of us out to it as quickly as possible. We already have intensive air pollution that ruins lung function and truncates lives; coronavirus just promises to accelerate the process: fast capitalism in its apotheosis.