It seems Stanislaw Lem wrote the Furturological Congress in a totalitarian society, with censorship all over the place, Lem had no way of expressing his mind without resorting to science fiction. Only the possibility of placing stories, placing meaning, in a world that existed in the future, existed beyond our own, could he escape the censors. And think about it, the whole notion of living in a matrix-like world, that must have been exactly what he felt about living in Soviet Poland.
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