“[Plato’s cave] is an allegory of sleeping and waking, of our time as asleep in the dark of the cave and needing to awake to a clear vision of the world. It is an allegory of our time as needing to be born again, to emerge from the darkness of corruption into the light of truth and morality. It is an educational allegory of our time as needing to ascend through stages of education from the darkness of intellectual and moral confusion in its everyday beliefs, to the light of true knowledge and values.” — T.Z. Lavine
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Lights of San Francisco (by JC Richardson)
“Millicent Barnes, aged 25. A young woman waiting for a bus on a rainy November night. Not a very imaginative type is Miss Barnes, not given to undue anxiety or fears or, for that matter, even the most temporal flights of fancy. Like most young career woman, she has a generic classification as a, quote, “girl with a head on her shoulders,” end of quote; all of which is mentioned now because in just a moment, the head on Miss Barnes’ shoulders will be put to a test. Circumstances will assault her sense of reality and a chain of nightmares will put her sanity on a block.
Millicent Barnes, who in one minute will wonder if she is going mad.”
-Rod Serling, “Mirror Image”, The Twilight Zone (1960)
A timeline that matches science fiction inventions and concepts with when they were actually realized.
(via GMSV)
An early LEGO patent drawing circa 1958, the building block of a global cult.
by gouta., (almost certainly) Japan (exact location unknown).
brian’s photos are absolutely incredible.
