Marching Morons: Indonesia's Mount Merapi

Science fiction writer Ben Bova wrote:
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.

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Monday, November 8, 2010

Indonesia's Mount Merapi

Mount Merapi, the central Indonesian volcano that began erupting on Oct. 26, continued its streak of eruptions over the weekend, pushing the death toll from its deadly blasts even higher.

As of Sunday, Merapi's recent explosive blasts have killed 156 people, a doctor at Indonesia's Sardjito hospital told CNN.