And Man Grew Proud: Difference between revisions

* The reason Tally's [[Assimilation Plot|dystopian]] [[The Beautiful Elite|world]] is [[Utopia Justifies the Means|necessary]] in ''[[Uglies]]'' is because the Rusties did some [[Future Slang|totally bogus and brain-missing]] stuff in the past that culminated in environmental and technological menaces they engineered destroying their society.

* In [[Robert Heinlein]]'s novella "[[Literature/Universe|Universe]]" (expanded into the book ''[[Orphans Of The Sky]]''), passengers aboard a [[Generation Ship]] built by the Jordan Foundation remember:

''Jordan's hand was lifted and the Ship was born!'' }}

* Gary Paulsen's young adult novel "The Transall Saga" does this quite effectively at the novel's halfway point.

* Played for laughs in the ''[[Doctor Who]]'' serials ''[[Doctor Who/Recap/S23 E1 The Mysterious Planet|The Mysterious Planet]]'', in which an underground colony of survivors on a far-future Earth renamed Ravalox which has been ravaged by a fireball refer to three sacred texts that are the only few surviving books they have, which govern their lives and their views of the world before the apocalypse, and which are trusted to learned scholars to unpack their meanings. They are, however, Herman Melville's ''[[Moby Dick]]'', Charles Kingsley's ''The Water Babies'', and a guide to the UK Habitats of the Canadian Goose by 'HM Stationery Office', which is apparently the most mysterious. The Doctor is not impressed.

* Also played for laughs in a recurring ''[[That Mitchell and Webb Look]]'' sketch: two years after "The Event" (never specified), most of human knowledge seems to have been wiped out, painfully evident every week when "The Quiz Broadcast" is shown on TV.

'''Contestant:''' Was it an animal?|'''Host:''' Which of Shakespeare's ''three'' plays are now thought to be prophetic of ''The Event''?}}