Another Prophecy Fulfilled

When modernity itself seems to be tearing apart at the seams, best to turn to J. G. Ballard.

The English novelist, who died in 2009, retains his prophetic edge; while the West has yet to become an actual Orwellian nightmare—the elections still free and the deracinated super-states still a globalist fantasy—it is easy to find traces of Ballardian horror everywhere. Dead-eyed consumerism, soul-less high-rises, and climate-related catastrophes, all made up the stuff of Ballard’s near-term dystopias. Violence looms, but it is not Big Brother imposing it from on high, nor a gang of droogs menacing us from below. It’s in all of us.

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