Roving bands of historians, scholars, and theologians having found fault with the non-fictional status of fictional novel “The Da Vinci Code", have turned their sights on other fictional tales like 'Moby Dick" and "How Stella got her Groove Back". These truth-seekers say that they are merely trying to "set the record straight" by not letting fictional ideas slip into the collective conscience of today as truth.
They have begun to disassemble what they call "fiction's web of lies". They claim that even thought these books purport themselves as works of fiction, they are in fact erroneous, not historically accurate, and downright untrue sometimes. The list of works of fiction that do not adhere to the truth is getting longer by the day.
When asked how they would warn the public, they came up with the following short list for people to remember when they read fiction:
- Dogs cannot talk even when they wear pants
- Interstellar space travel is not yet possible
- Races like Klingons, Ewoks, and Hobbits do not nor have ever actually existed
A related group, Physicists for the Protection of the Timeline (PPT), has taken similar tactics by lobbing indictments at the creators of the "Back to the Future" trilogy saying that the ideas on time travel that the movie conveys are purely speculative. And if they are correct, the PPT says that it is dangerous to let loose this information to the public. Imagine the damage that could be done by someone who happens to have a Delorean and a flux capacitor (a continuum transfunctioner may also do the trick) lying around.
Movies may be the all-time biggest culprit of claiming fiction but then turning around and showing audiences things that could not possibly happen. I'm sure we have all seen someone die in a movie, only to see another movie with the same person in it, alive and kicking. Liars!