I just read an H Beam Piper story from 1953 called Null-ABC that made me think of the modern left.
Null-ABC explores a future society where intellectuals are the lower class in thrall to non-intellectual masters thanks to the results of a number of world wars. The first chapter is an interesting discourse of what being non-intellectual means.
Interesting to note is that most of society can’t read but relies on what can be considered picture books and emojis to continue civilization.
And the illiterates are extremely violent with those who dont agree with them, sounds hauntingly familiar.
I just read an H Beam Piper story from 1953 called Null-ABC that made me think of the modern left.
Null-ABC explores a future society where intellectuals are the lower class in thrall to non-intellectual masters thanks to the results of a number of world wars. The first chapter is an interesting discourse of what being non-intellectual means.
Interesting to note is that most of society can’t read but relies on what can be considered picture books and emojis to continue civilization.
And the illiterates are extremely violent with those who dont agree with them, sounds hauntingly familiar.
You can get it for free for Kindle from Amazon.
https://www.amazon.com/Null-ABC-John-Joseph-McGuire-ebook/dp/B004TPL236/ref=sr_1_1?dchild=1&keywords=null-abc&qid=1594843927&sr=8-1