Writing, mostly.

I’m looking forward to the film of Children Of Men. I don’t normally like the idea of film versions of books but something inside me seems to have slipped and I find myself watching the trailer more than once and thinking about how they will do certain scenes. It has spurred me on to reading the book again – something I haven’t done since I was at college.

Anyway, it all looks pretty interesting. And it left me wondering how this country would react if the events actually came true and humanity became infertile. More specifically it left me wondering what would happen if, after this happened, the only women to become fertile again were black. Would we (or perhaps how would we), as society predominantly controlled by white people, tolerate a world in which black people are the only ones with an actual future? We seem to be always portraying ourselves as under some kind of cultural threat as it is, continuously frightened both privately and publicly as though the white grip on this country could ever really be loosened. As though power bases can ever really shift.