02-21-2019, 08:34 AM
Real culture needs real life to inspire it. Abandoning the space race, America doomed itself to lose global cultural leadership. Quite soon, possibly during the upcoming 1T China may take the lead. Chinese culture already IS inspiring. Read "Three body problem" trilogy by Liu Cixin. It offers a really novel perspective on the problem of interspecies warfare, comparable to "War of the Worlds" by HG Wells. Its conclusion made me so excited and scared at the same time that I couldn't sleep at night! So China produces a work like this while most contemporary American sci-fi simply tells the story of the American Revolution (Hunger Games) or WW2 (Star Wars) in a futuristic setting. Or it spends an entire movie moralizing about indigenous people's rights and global warming (Avatar).