Sovalyelik Nisani'na sahip Ingiliz mucit ve bilimkurgu yazari Arthur C. Clarke’in dogum yildonumu (16 Aralik 1917)
“Gelecekte yasanacaklari dusunuyordu; bundan bir kac yil sonra Dunya ne hale gelecekti? Ne kadar sansli olduklarini asla anlamayacaklardi. Bir omurluk zaman diliminde insanlik, bir irkin gorup gorebilecegi her turlu mutlulugu elde etmisti. Altin Cagini yasamisti. Ancak altin ayni zamanda gun batiminin, Sonbaharin rengiydi ve kis firtinalarinin ilk esintilerini yalnizca Karellen'in kulaklari isitiyordu.
Ve yalnizca Karellen biliyordu Altin Cag'in ne amansiz bir hizla nihayet ilerledigini.”
"He thought of all that lay ahead, and what this world would be only a dozen years from now.They would never know how lucky they had been. For a lifetime, mankind had achieved as much happiness as any race can ever know. It had been the Golden Age. But gold was also the color of sunset, of autumn: and only Karellen's ears could catch the first wailings of the winter storms.
And only Karellen knew with what inexorable swiftness the Golden Age was rushing to its close.”
"Bu adada insanligin bagimsizligini, sanatsal geleneklerini de korumaya calisiyoruz. Hukumdarlara karsi dusmanlik besledigimizden degil; tek istedigimiz, kendi kafamiza gore yasamak. Eski zamanlarin ulus anlayisi yok edip, insanligin tarihin baslangicindan beri suregelen yasayis bicimine son verdiklerinde, kurunun yaninda yas da yandi. Artik ortada son derece ruhsuz, siradan ve kulturel acidan olu bir Dunya var. Hukumdarlar geldiginden beri yeni hicbir sey uretilmedi. Sebebi de acik. Mucadele etmeye deger bir sey kalmadi. Insanlar gunubirlik eglencelerle oyalaniyor. Her gun bir suru kanaldan yaklasik bes yuz saatlik radyo ve televizyon yayini yapildiginin farkinda misiniz? Hic uyumayip surekli bunlari takip etseniz, bir tik uzaginizdaki onca eglence programinin yuzde yirmisine bile yetisemezsiniz. Milletin tembel sungerlere donusmesine sasirmamali; her daim emiyorlar, ama asla uretmiyorlar. Yakinda kimse kendi hayatini yasamiyor olacak. Televizyon dizilerindeki aileleri izlemekten baska seye vakit kalmayacak."
"Here on this island we're trying to save something of humanity's independence, its artistic traditions. We've no hostility towards the Overlords: we simply want to be left alone to go our own way. When they destroyed the old nations and the way of life man had known since the beginning of history, they swept away many good things with the bad. The world's now placid, featureless and culturally dead: nothing really new has been created since the Overlords came. The reason's obvious. There's nothing left to struggle for, and there are too many distractions and entertainments. Do you realize that every day something like five hundred hours of radio and TV pour out over the various channels? If you went without sleep and did nothing else, you could follow less than a twentieth of the entertainment that's available at the turn of a switch! No wonder that people are becoming passive sponges-absorbing but never creating. Did you know that the average viewing time per person is now three hours a day? Soon people won't be living their own lives any more. It will be a full-time job keeping up with the various family serials on TV!”
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