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As I sat in the bathroom, wondering about the nature of literature in today's world, my mind presented to me a very fascinating and entertaining line of thought.

Of late, we have been noticing that in all of today's fiction bestsellers, the protagonist is a typical hot-headed fool, who would be willing to take irrational decisions for the sake of friends or family or in general, his near and dear. Moving to the part where actual fiction starts, the fiction in every piece of modern literature is very much similar to all the others, it is not just the genre but even the setting and the elements of fiction that have become similar.
This death of the genre of fiction, in which all authors either sensationalize their books by claiming to have addressed the most contemporary, pressing issues that plague modern society in ways untold, has primarily, I think begun with the death of the sub-genre of scientific fiction, hence forward referred to as SF.

Now, let us closely look at the literary scene in SF. As we see in most SF books these days, the hot-headed protagonist makes foolish choices, going against his wise master/teacher /mentor's advice and puts himself and his area of jurisdiction, which is the locality he lives in or his nation or the world itself, in danger of being destroyed or taken over by the antagonist. The antagonist is usually a scheming, clever tactician who has never lost a battle and is unwilling to accept certain realities of life due to his own past achievements. This sets the tone of every work in fiction, and so too in SF. In SF, the technology that is created is supposed to be used in a reasonable and logically explainable manner but not as a magical cure for what is today incurable. And more often than not, in SF writings technology is used to rectify all the errors made by the protagonist. Also in the final battle with the antagonist, technology gets upgraded at the right time very magically and conveniently for the protagonist to make use and cover up for his own inept performance in his battle. All this, I think has killed the toughness of writing under the genre of SF, and that it has more or less become more like fantasy than scientific in nature.