Last night we had the pleasure of hosting Sheldon Teitelbaum who spoke about sci-fi in Israel.  I had been avoiding reading his work because I kept thinking that I don’t want to think about tomorrow.  Tomorrow keeps coming up into my face as it is.  

But Sheli explained that our literature here comes from social realism – and that is the reason why we are geared to sci fi.  And then I brought Elana Gomel into the conversation with her Russian pessimism and her vast knowledge of the genre.

So it was hard to sleep that night.  I mean I’d really prefer not to plan tomorrow when I don’t know how today is.  It was only when I remembered Shimon Peres and his idea that we should study dreaming more than history that I relaxed.

That’s when I realized.  Dreaming possibilities for the future is precisely what is needed.