the STAR TREK episode "The Paradise Syndrome" is another visit to a space version of Tahiti - an alluring, enticing, and heavenly planet where peace and love rule and where sexual repression and alienating labour are wholly absent
MCCOY: What's the matter, Jim?
KIRK: What? Oh, nothing. It's just so peaceful, uncomplicated. No problems, no command decisions. Just living.
MCCOY: Typical human reaction to an idyllic natural setting. Back in the twentieth century, we referred to it as...
...the Tahiti Syndrome. It's particularly common to over-pressured leader types, like starship captains.
You are right, Jesse - Heinlein's personality (self reliant non specialist) is a Boy Scout's mentality ... [re the] Population Bomb-you make me chuckle; wouldn't it be nice if a
book could make tremendous changes possible. That point might make a good podcast; which books caused significant changes? Missing = black people? It is amazing to me that
Heinlein would evoke an over populated world after all the death experienced during WW2...I think that 'The Rolling Stones' would make for a great discussion. ...
yesterday we recorded a podcast on THE GODDESS OF ATVATABAR, an 1892 HOLLOW EARTH novel by William R. Bradshaw
I found it really cool, with lots of fun SCIENCE FICTION ideas, near the start and end, and also a tremendous wasteland of spiritualism masturbation in the middle
subtitled:
BEING THE
HISTORY OF THE DISCOVERY
OF THE
INTERIOR WORLD
AND
CONQUEST OF ATVATABAR
it clearly informs Edgar Rice Burroughs' AT THE EARTH'S CORE, but with sexually frustrated preistesses in place of psychic lesbian dinosaur ladies
it feels like it should be a satire, but the evidence for that is too scant
It is however very funny in places, and very much worth reading if u dig old books
here's a VOX Lovecraft Explainer that links to a site that links to the SFFaudio PDF page listing the H.P. Lovecraft stories and poems scanned from issues of WEIRD TALES
Dreamt I was in a ferry ship in the North Sea headed to Britain at night we took a meal during a storm and as we sat down to eat it the ship started rolling, when k looked out the window there was a massive whirlpool forming. There was a wave of panic among the passengers but I
was more worried about finding my car on the vehicle decks. What deck did we park on? What did the car look like? I didn't know. while the ship listed from side to side in the storm various carts & bags rolled down the aisles. Somehow this reminded me of the high grass wasteland
I'd tramped through between buildings - speculating on the strange gatherings of birds, and people - the people might have been wedding parties gathering to be photographs. But why were birds garthering there? I didn't know. Suddenly a set of polished metal pins like bowling pins