{"id":94123,"date":"2025-06-25T02:00:01","date_gmt":"2025-06-25T06:00:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/?p=94123"},"modified":"2025-03-16T22:11:53","modified_gmt":"2025-03-17T02:11:53","slug":"h-g-wells-things-to-come-through-the-eyes-of-its-time","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/2025\/06\/25\/h-g-wells-things-to-come-through-the-eyes-of-its-time\/","title":{"rendered":"H.G. Wells&#8217; <em>Things To Come<\/em>: Through The Eyes of its Time"},"content":{"rendered":"<p align=\"center\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"854\" height=\"480\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/CScyJcVSp0g?si=zI3APKK7c6BENSPL\" title=\"YouTube video player\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<blockquote><p><strong>Feral Historian<\/strong><br \/>\nPublished 10 Jan 2025<\/p>\n<p>H.G. Wells&#8217; <em>Things To Come<\/em> played much differently in 1936 than it does today. So much so that it offers us an insight into the politics of the period if we can step back from our post-WWII understanding and look at it on its own terms. <\/p>\n<p>Link to the Coupland essay.<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/digamoo.free.fr\/coupland2000.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">http:\/\/digamoo.free.fr\/coupland2000.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n<p>00:00 Intro<br \/>\n02:08 Revolution Envy<br \/>\n05:15 The Gulf of Time<br \/>\n06:32 Wells and the BUF<br \/>\n08:02 Empire and Establishment<br \/>\n12:11 The World State<br \/>\n15:18 To Understand the Past &#8230;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Feral Historian Published 10 Jan 2025 H.G. Wells&#8217; Things To Come played much differently in 1936 than it does today. So much so that it offers us an insight into the politics of the period if we can step back from our post-WWII understanding and look at it on its own terms. Link to the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[32,4,7,28,53],"tags":[457,1593,686,1383,1197,122,506,1574],"class_list":["post-94123","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-books","category-britain","category-history","category-media","category-politics","tag-fascism","tag-feralhistorian","tag-futurism","tag-hgwells","tag-interwarperiod","tag-movies","tag-revolution","tag-technocracy"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2hpV6-ou7","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/94123","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=94123"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/94123\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":94124,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/94123\/revisions\/94124"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=94123"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=94123"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=94123"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}