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Did Stephen King predict the future in "the running man" (lemm.ee)

submitted 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) by penquin@lemm.ee to c/books@lemmy.world

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Did he? Or was it like that even back then? I'm reading this book, and it's like a carbon copy of our world in the US nowadays. I keep yelling "oh my god, this is basically happening right now!!!" Not as blatant and (I don't know the word) as in the book, but essentially the same. The book is like now, but on steroids (to explain the word I'm missing). The divide/polarization, the police brutality, the pollution, corporations and exploitation, the government's overreach..... Etc, it's all here now.

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[–] SamuraiBeandog@lemmy.world 52 points 1 week ago (2 children)

More a student of history than a predictor of the future. What's happening in the world at the moment is nothing new, human societies are pretty predictable, at a broad scale.

[–] ininewcrow@lemmy.ca 29 points 1 week ago (4 children)

One man is born with immense wealth, grows up to gain even more wealth and total control of an entire geographic region and wants to control more land, wealth and people ... his thirst for power is insatiable and costing the lives of hundreds, thousands and even millions of people.

Guess the century.

[–] SpaceNoodle@lemmy.world 10 points 1 week ago

All of them

[–] superkret@feddit.org 4 points 1 week ago

Umpteenth.

[–] CrayonRosary@lemmy.world 2 points 1 week ago

Rome?

[–] bizzle@lemmy.world 2 points 1 week ago

Tale as old as time

[–] Mushroomm@sh.itjust.works 5 points 1 week ago

My stoned ass was a prophet in the back of a Chevy Cavalier. My history teacher was pretty adamant about the importance of the field but tried to make it as interesting as possible. Even just watching hotel Rwanda spurred a week of curiosity and lessons