Everybody's a little bit paranoid

[forsyth]

You know it's there, right beside your life. Another world behind this one, one that's primal, pulsing, urgent, alive. A greater world, infinitely weirder and more interesting than the one that surrounds you. Grand dramas unfolding in the shadows with casts of legends. The Real Reasons for everything. There's got to be more than this boring bullshit, right? Right?

Truly, the human mind has an astonishing capacity for boredom. Have you looked at the world? There's all the drama, evil, grand passions, miracles, and disasters you could want. And unlike fiction, it doesn't have to make any any damn sense.

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[frustratedpilot]

What I said back in the summer of 1999 on the subject:

"From the great quasi-prophetic movie Things to Come:

'War is a stimulant to progress...'

'You can overdo a stimulant.' (Said before a bomber raid flattens
Everytown, where the two speakers are citizens.)

As a still-aspiring science-fiction writer, I'm trying to think up a story on an alternate Earth where the World Wars never happened. And it is harder to imagine than you would think. The American Civil War may have welded us as a nation but it took both World Wars to make us the economic superpower we've enjoyed. The Wars also made nations out of colonies and ethnic underdogs. But at the same time, the cost may very well have outweighed the gains.

Somebody said peace is boring. Well thank divinity for this boredom!
I am now many years older than I've expected to be, because I expected to be killed off in the nuclear fire that Reagan and the Soviets seemed all too willing to light over a decade ago. Whenever we had that awful assignment in school to choose who would stay in the fallout shelter and who would be denied survival I would always
volunteer my own 'safe haven' to another character. Why? Because I
am a slave to all the technical and social machinations of this world
and I know I would not survive if it were to end.

But a world without a war since about 1910? Could it have been possible?"

I am not so much bored of these times as appalled by them.