[ChrisMarshallNY]

I suspect that fiction tends to be opposite of reality.

In the 1950s and 1960s, even though the economy was doing great, there was a lot of darkness in the world. There was the cold war, which was terrifying (you kids think it’s bad now?), we still had World War 2, Korea, and even World War 1 veterans around. We were still coming to grips with The Holocaust, and counterculture was just starting up with The Beats (not the Liverpool moptops). We had mass starvation, race riots, and a lot of fear.

Fiction, in those days, was pretty fluffy and optimistic.

The last couple of decades, before the current one, had seen a lot less of that kind of darkness, and escapism became fairly dark. Dystopian fantasy became en vogue, etc.

Things are getting dark again. I suspect fiction may lighten up.

We’ll see…