The banner image above was produced by asking an AI bot to generate a labyrinth in the style of Van Gogh. Imagine if humans were not permitted to ask an AI to be inspired by the style of any historic human artist.
Fiction in Action can reduce polarization, so we can
- learn from stories and stop fighting over who controls “the facts;”
- let people disagree since all points of view are subject to critical thinking;
- respect diversity, equity, and inclusion, and listen to more voices;
- move beyond mudslinging and accusations of spreading “misinformation.”
Fiction in Action – fiction stories linked to action projects
- ALTON – campaign to end free speech is historical fiction – based on John Glanville Gill’s Harvard Ph.D. thesis. Complex history was simplified to tighten the screenplay.
- ALICE in Cinderland updates Alice in Wonderland to reflect our climate-changed, pandemic-stricken, fascism threatened, AI driven, surreal world.
- SQUID is science fiction about a clone of Thomas More, Tom Evermore. Thomas More wrote his fake news (science fiction) novel Utopia, published in 1516 as a hoax to awaken his readers to corruption and offer a model for reform in England. What will his clone do?
The three heroes above tell stories to launch action. Elijah, a newspaper editor, was murdered for writing about abolition. Alice, a screenwriter, is accosted by the metaverse as she tries to write a story about the insanity in reality. Tom and Adelle realize that no one listens to facts – their hoax aims to awaken humanity to the imminent death of our ocean.
Whether our tomorrow is a fiery desert or a serene partnership with nature is up to us.
