As both a science-fiction author and teacher of political science, I have read a good deal of dystopian literature and political horror-stories about the future as nightmare, not to mention the holocausts which have existed not in imagination but reality.
What they have in common is a vision of a society in which individual human life has no value. Nor, of course, does individual conscience or belief.
I have previously described Britain today as showing features of “soft totalitarianism.” Recent news items suggest something a good deal nastier may be on the way unless there is a widespread moral regeneration. Read more …