By Alex Ness
April 22, 2026
I have tried over the 20 years of writing on blogs to consume products and ideas and by digesting my experience, give a reply, and do so with the ideas that are stirred by such a diet. At one time I had people who read my work from publishers of all sorts of media. I am unaware if any still do. But the sad thing is, works considered 20 years ago and considered were by and large all lesser works by me. I have learned from the time in grade. My work is therefore better than it ever was, but fewer read it now.
PROPERTIES TO DEVELOP
If you've viewed the movies Star Wars, Episode 1, Death Race 2000, to some degree Speed Racer, the concept of a race and personalities of various drivers lead to a renewable concept with new racers and serial episodes. Star Wars Podracing, captured chariot races in antiquity and movies about Rome entertained just as the races did historically. In movies and stories, for the state and for the owners of slaves, that required a death defying performance to thrill the viewer. Chuck Dixon wrote a comic book miniseries featuring wars as fought while in cars, and Steve Jackson Games features many games to play the scenarios yourself. The concept could grow, and it can be fought as a fan of races, or the feature of fiction found in a futuristic nihilist series where the world is burning, and car races fuel the drama in that world. These are modern gladiators fighting in modern chariots.
THE EVOLUTION OF HUMAN MINDS WITH LIFE IN A DIGITAL WORLD
The goals and ideas of the future often feature the power of AI, Cyberconnectiveness and modern allegiances. But Tokyo Ghost has a different and far off looking future in mind. It says, are humans already addicted to screen, do we have a chance to separate ourselves from tech, rewards based on upon non human transactions, digital currency and human body divorced existence? The deeper future isn't as pretty and the Tokyo mentioned here has segregated cyber use for areas outside of its non tech garden. City states are alive, due to the massive nation state weakening, from the addictions, and the economy that rises from it. There are not enough works that investigate consequences that will happen, not just might happen, and if this isn't a joyously happy future, it does offer hope for human agency.
FERTILITY CRISES
During my wife and I's journey to have our child, we experienced disasters, and scientific mitigation of our tragedies. I have written about that experience many times. However, there are a variety of scholars, including people from the right and left of political divides, who argue that the human population issue is more complex than numbers, or consumption of resources. However, there are known consequences of various political states controlling the means to end or to encourage more population. Higher Taxes upon families having multiple children is one way, taxes incentives for those family building larger families of the types of population is a similar way. Oddly, both kinds of laws and edicts can exist in the same states. Singapore saw its lower birth rate of the more monied/educated classes as happening in one ethnic group. So, at the same time it limited others, it gave benefits to larger families in the highest bracket. Children of Men, by PD James and the movie adapting it, speak of how birth of children from various groups have led to economic and political crises. The fears of the wealthy, the white elite, the educated, crashing in fertility as the groups with less ability financial or educationally, rising, leads to a collision of goals and idealism.
ART BY MOEBIUS
I was asked by someone why I love the work of Moebius, aka Jean Giraud so much. I think this is a case of trying to describe what something tastes like to a person who has no taste buds. It is much more than taste, but it is involving my taste. I see colors and humans, dreams and nightmares in forms I never saw before Moebius's work, and never since. Some try. Some try to evoke his works, others might even swipe his work. All I know when I picked a book which was 75% off a hardcover collection of Moebius, and found when I brought it to the register, it was 50% off that price to boot, I felt like I'd got away with the deal of the century.
The lines found in Moebius are original. He came of age when the arts were moving from simple story telling and service to the story, to creating art that was so large and mind blowing that people would forget about the greater story if they let themselves do that. I wrote a letter to Jean Giraud in 1990 through the services of one of his publishers forwarding his mail (I had air mail postage on my letter to be forwarded) and my letter was written in French. He responded in 45 days or so, thanked me for the letter, and sent along a sketch. It was a very good day. The images show works that reward the readers and I recommend them all.
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