¿Still No Asimov’s Foundation/Psychohistory Movie -- Why?
Dear Reader,
A “Reddit Answers” user recently posed the question -- “Why
has no one tried adapting Isaac Asimov's Foundation series to film or
television?
The URL for this query is --
I responded as follows --
“Despite the enduring fascination of a potentially large
audience, continuing generation after generation, in Asimov's Foundation
series, and in its mathematical social science of "psychohistory", no
movie of that series has yet been made.
I think that this is for three main reasons.”
“One, there is a very advanced, profoundly Marxian quality
to the "lawful" progression of epochs in the
"psychohistorical" development of the First Foundation that is
anathema to the Big Money "powers that be", who do not want to see
this kind of "social scientific" thinking broached among the middle
classes, potentially replacing those interests' carefully inculcated
"divide-and-conquer" Balkanization of those classes, with
"theories" of racial bigotry, religious bigotry, ethnic bigotry,
class bigotry, etc., that keep those classes fighting among themselves, not
recognizing their real arch enemy.”
“Second, the kind of "psychohistorical" thinking
that pervades Asimov's Foundation stories is alien to the mentality of so many
Hollywood screen writers.”
“Third, there is no single, Rambo-style action hero in the
Foundation stories, which span generations, and therefore foster a kind of
long-term, historical thinking that is unfamiliar to many movie-goers.”
“There may be no movie, but there is a group working to
actualize Asimov's "psychohistory" at Earth scale. See www.dialectics.info
.”
Regards,
Miguel
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