The most prescient — and chilling — of all the science fiction stories ever written, though, is “The Marching Morons,” by Cyril M. Kornbluth, first published in 1951. It should be required reading in every school on Earth.
The point that Kornbluth makes is simple, and scary: dumbbells have more children than geniuses. In “The Marching Morons” he carries that idea to its extreme, but logical, conclusion.
Kornbluth tells of a future world that is overrun with dummies: men and women who don’t know anything beyond their own shallow personal interests. They don’t know how their society works, or who is running it. All they care about is their personal — and immediate — gratification.
Just picked up a lens that I have dreamt of owning for at least 5 or 6 years now.
Can't wait to go out and really play with it.
Bubba was my first victim, although a 300mm is not a portrait lens, the detail is remarkable considering it was done without using a tripod. The lens weighs a ton.
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