At the LA Times, science fiction author John Scalzi makes an interesting case against voting for Trump: you don’t really want to live in a dystopia, do you?
Dystopias are fun to read about but believing that it might be fine to burn down society in a fit of pique because you can’t have what you want — to cheer on a dystopia — is dangerous and sad. I mean, here’s a hot take: Life in the U.S. is pretty good right now. The economy is growing, wages are finally climbing, crime is at or near historic lows and we live in a new golden age of television. It’s not perfect, of course — it never is — but it’s not bad. Moreover, the presidential election of 2016 isn’t going to be rigged; such a thing is almost impossible to manage in our complicated and massively decentralized system.
Dystopian societies captivate our imagination, he writes, because they are full of the drama of the collapse of civilization. But voting for Trump (or throwing away your vote on a third party, I might add), could very well lead us into chaos.
Chaos isn’t all it’s cracked up to be in novels and in movies. Read the whole article here.