Global warming, consumerism, isolation, alienation, urban violence, he saw it coming. And I agree with him, science fiction is the literature of the 20th century. As a science fiction writer, his task was warning people. He didn't see himself as a pessimistic. His characters are in a quest and all of them accomplish something, whatever it may be.
Trash culture, everything that makes noise and promotes violence and destruction. We are exposed to its stimuli that distract us and disturb us in television, radio, cinema, internet, politics, humourists, press, magazines, shopping centers, streets... Indoors and outdoors stimuli lead to conditioned behaviour and consumer habits. News of war and violence lead to fear, obedience, and also to hatred, rough words, lack of empathy. War Inc. shows us the main characteristics of trash culture: life has no value, only power and destruction matter. Nevertheless, even in trash we can find the seeds of survival, the fragile signs of a kind human interaction:
