Dirk Pitt Anyone?

Has anyone picked up any of these books by Clive Cussler? They aren’t half bad, some fun adventure ridden stories with insurmountable and seemingly unachievable goals with the fate of the entire planet hanging by a thread. Usually it’s saved by the inevitable last minute by the brute force of Pitt. His overwhelming sense of machismo is coupled with undeniable charisma that makes his stories likable and fun. 

However, Cussler himself comes across as a megalamaniac freak. He actually adds himself in as a respective character PLAYING HIMSELF in each novel. Don’t good writers kind of write themselves into a multitude of characters to live vicariously threw, rather than actually say, Hey there’s this guy Clive Cussler to help save Pitt’s ass again. It’s become obnoxious to the point that I don’t want to read another one of his novels for awhile.  Seriously, is this guy for real?  What an egotiscal pompous freak!

Anti-Skynet

We live in a world full of technology, violence, and the so-called humanity of our race.  Everyday we continue to fight each other and build more things to kill each other with, all in the name of “protecting ourselves”.  Let’s not kid ourselves.  As humans, we are hardly compassionate people.  We are aggressive, territorial creatures that happen to have a higher level of intelligence than anything on this planet which so far has taught us to build bigger and badder ways to kill one another.  Even our ways of entertainment is through violence and gore.  Everything in the world revolves around conflict.  What will eventually bring us down?  God?  If there is one almighty God, he would never need strike his hand down upon man.  An asteriod from space won’t kill us, nor a Super Volcano under yellowstone park.  We have the special talent for being the bringers of our own destiny.  At a very early age I became obsessed with the idea of a post apocalyptic world, and as I grew I began to see the change in our world and the heavy impact technology has had.  Will survival of the fittest soon apply to machines as well?  How far away is the possibility of Skynet?  Here are some fictional interpretations of what may be our very end:

Films like The Terminator, Judgement Day, 12 Monkeys, and The Matrix and Jurassic Park really touch on the exploitation of technology and shows how in their creation it’s damaged, rather than helped us.

Excellent fictional books that explore these same ideals are Prey, State Of Fear, The Lost World, Girlfriend In a Coma, I Am Legend, and The Time Machine.

Those that are preparing for the Apocalypse, perhaps your paranoia is valid.  Either way, these many be fictional interpretations, but the fear behind them is very real.