Arthur C. Clark
<p>Syd and Mick bonded as they discussed Arthur C. Clark's science fiction novel Childhood's End. In the book, highly evolved children tap into mental powers parents dismissed as fairytales, connecting humanity with an interstellar Overmind. Ushered into mile-wide spaceships by alien Overlords, the children leave the planet. </p>
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"Science fiction has already provided the edifying myth for such a political unification. In the sci-fi novel <cite>Childhood’s End</cite>, Arthur C. Clarke invokes an extraterrestrial facilitator for world governance. Dubbed the Overlords, these aliens hasten the end of sovereign nation-states and the formation of a one-world government. Commenting on how the arrival of the extraterrestrial Overlords has affected the nation-state system, a character named Stormgren remarks: ” . . .it is useless to cling to the past. Even before the Overlords came to Earth, the sovereign state was dying. They have merely hastened its end: no one can save it now–and no one should try.” (45) This is just one example out of many presented by the proselytes of sci-fi predictive programming."
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