speculative fiction

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Science Deniers in the Modern Medieval Age

What is a science denier?

These days it is anyone who does not agree with the general media about the covid vaxxination. However you want to debate all of that… the label of science denier is pure propaganda.

Science should be questioned, it is meant to be questioned. Science is full of theories and hypotheses and questions. Unquestioned science isn’t really science at all. Some might call it religion, with policies and rules set in stone which all are expected to follow. I don’t think that is entirely fair to religion. But, it isn’t science.

The real question is, why are we not allowed to debate this science? Why are people labelled as “science deniers”?

I like theories, looking at things with questions and speculation. I like wondering about things and unusual combinations and relationships between things. I like learning something new. I read about the flat Earth theory (for example), because I can. I don’t have to believe it but there are interesting ideas there. Theories and ideas. Why deny it, I like speculative fiction, alternative science and theories. I like science because it is a question full of more questions.

This seems so much like a modern Medieval age.  How fast and how far backwards will people go?

You may choose to call me a science denier. I prefer explorer.

Speculative Fiction merging Non-fiction, History and Horror

Create a story, with some element of horror. An even that would give you nightmares, if it happened to you.

Don’t start with a family photograph. I think that would be a bit creepy, for you and your family. Find an old photograph, black and white works well for the dramatic effect. Also, anyone in the photograph is likely no longer living, if it really is an old photo.

Build a life for a person, or people, which could be real, but might not be. If you want to work on it, look into history for the local area. Find real stories which you can link to the people in the photograph.

Make a mix of non-fiction, possibility, and your worst nightmares.

Writer/Director James Marsh’s first feature, WISCONSIN DEATH TRIP, is an intimate, shocking and sometimes hilarious account of the disasters that befell one small town in Wisconsin during the final decade of the 19th century. The film is inspired by Michael Lesy’s book of the same name which was first published in 1973. Lesy discovered a striking archive of black and white photographs in the town of Black River Falls dating from the 1890’s and married a selection of these images to extracts from the town’s newspaper from the same decade. The effect was surprising and disturbing. The town of Black River Falls seems gripped by some peculiar malaise and the weekly news is dominated by bizarre tales of madness, eccentricity and violence amongst the local population. Suicide and murder are commonplace. People in the town are haunted by ghosts, possessed by devils and terrorized by teenage outlaws and arsonists.

Source: Wisconsin Death Trip – About

See also: Dakota Death Trip – Site by Derek Dahlsad. (Archived, but still online).

Could you go this far and make a site about your own town? It would be tricky, the mix of real stories, real people in photographs and the addition of speculation.