Lexicon:H.G. Wells
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H.G. Wells was a prophet. A genius of foresight, he predicted, in his own inimitable way, the onset of the Second World War, aerial dog fighting, the military use of poison gas, the invention of both atomic weapons and submarine-launched intercontinental warheads, air conditioning, commercial and global television, electric lighting, automatic doors, articulated lorries, the mechanisation of agriculture, video recording…
Now Wells can add another accurate prediction to his list. In his 1936 screenplay for the film Things to Come, he predicted the advent of a wandering sickness, and the subsequent fall of man at the hands and claws of an infected horde. Obviously Wells could never have dreamt of anything even approaching this nightmare, but his vision is a grim reminder of a fear that has always lurked in the dark corners of our mind. Even as far back as the Epic of Gilgamesh, the fear of our own kind turning on us, devouring all before them in a frenzied cannibal holocaust, has been an oral and literary trope. Even if we survive to forget these dark days, even if other parts of the world continue to turn unabated while this soiled little island rots, we will always fear the cannibal dead.
23:14, 24 December 2009 (UTC)
Citation: Television -- MHSstaff 05:41, 8 January 2010 (UTC)
