Science-fiction and expanded viewpoints.
I’m working hard on crafting the background of my next written work, which is going to be a science-fiction adventure tale, but there’s a lot of ideas that are coming to mind which are making the crafting process both interesting and damningly difficult.
I’m trying to create a spaceborn human society separated from Earthborn ideals and restrictions; something more progressive and transgressive all at once. Because you see, I believe that once man gets to the stars, he’s going to look down and go, “Good lord, all those boundaries down there are all just man-made. We’re all the same race, but we can’t stand each other.” Except that those who operate the programs designed to go into space will still be living on Earth, and thus our space programs will be operated from an Earthborn perspective in order to benefit man on Earth. At some point someone will say, “We can’t simply benefit only Earth while we’re out here,” and give birth to a new society.
What would that look like? Imagine a society broken free of Earth perceptions, religious-born morality, and aesthetics. Built on science and art and philosophy instead of manifest destiny. Skin color doesn’t matter because we’re all different shades of human. Sexuality doesn’t matter because each individual has the right to be who they are so long as they do not harm others. Space is not the final frontier, it’s the new frontier, and at last we get to explore it, so why restrict ourselves to factioned Earth borders — American, Iranian, Chinese, African — when we can band together and see this place for ourselves?
On Earth man will continue to expand and take what they want and control and protect their resources. Space will see us all for everyone. But not in a bland, vanilla melting pot of everyone is the same; everyone is NOT the same, and that’s what’s beautiful about the human race. We’re all individuals with different beliefs, but rather than imposing those beliefs upon each other, we ought to be able to live together while maintaining our beliefs. LGBT rights no longer exist because they are simply human rights; Christian and Muslim share coffee together; the idea of society where we are all free and a part of each other and not naturally divisive like we are here on Earth.
That’s all I’ve been able to think about over the course of the last few days. It’s not designed to be utopia, because utopia does not exist. I think that anyone establishing this new spaceborn society would understand that and be conscious of the hardships of maintaining a place where everyone has the right to live without harming each other. But it’s worth striving for, and while I want to entertain with a rollicking space opera adventure yarn, I can’t help but try to make a statement while doing so.
My head hurts.
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About me
CK Burch is a novelist, poet, father of two, and assistant editor for ZED Presents...Publishing. Born in 1982 and floating somewhere between adulthood and immaturity, he writes science-fiction and horror, love letters to geekdom and his childhood spent growing up in the 80's. When not writing or composing, he's spending time with his little rugrats, who also walk a fine line between adorable and deportable. They take after their father. When he's not trying desperately to write in a few more chapters and ignore those lovable children who serve to remind him not to cuss so much, he's playing video games with the volume up real loud. It drowns out the sound of neighbors yelling at him to turn it down.
