" in most worlds of Science fiction, you are not talking about the future, you are talking about the present. You are using the future as a way of giving a bit of fantasy element"
I suddenly understood how we usually fantasies with the future, but our future is always marked by our present. We imagine that things will be different, almost perfect, but in order to have a perfect future, we would need perfection in the present. This way, we end up imagining our future present and wondering: What for?
"Either the future will rest blue the present, in which case it will not listen to him; or it will be different from it and his predicament would be meaningless." 1984
What Allan Moore does in V for Vendetta is to criticize. He wants to make people conscious of their situation, of the concecuences of the past, to remind them of what or how it used to be. He is not predicting what is going to happen, he is describing what is going on. As V does with Evey, Moore tries to change Our path towards anarchy and rebellion against the stablished and unfruitful system.
So are Moore and Orwell predicting the future? I bePiece that, as we learn in history, you need to know the past to understand the present and predict the future. In this case our history says: people are easy to lead ifignorant, knowledge , conviction and strenght are power, man likes figing Fire with Fire, because the stablished burocracy does not work. Does not matter how convinced, most people have a price, or at least you have to loose an important part of yourself in the fight for your beliefs.
So, there is not much new under the sun. We are always slaves of someone or something. Always rebelling against something. And always hoping for either the end of our suffering or the arrival of our hero.
Major themes and symbols in V for Vendetta by Allan Moore. Chris Muise, http://www.hyperink.com/Quotv-For-Vendettaquot-Summary-Book-One-Chapter-1-The-Villain-b260a10
Alan Moore talks V for Vendetta YouTube video http://youtu.be/QX7ehbE1vc0
1984, George Orwell
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