I just got the idea for my next novel:
Alien spores drift through the atmosphere, turning the population from rampant acolytes of the God of Consumption Mania, and into enlightened beings in the Buddhist mould (rather like those pot-bellied figurines with Chinese eyes which people call Buddhas but actually aren’t.) Suddenly they become supremely uninterested in the folly of Samsara and turn instead to the process of leaving the wheel of life, death, and rebirth behind. A bit like an inverted Invasion of the Body Snatchers.
Imagine what that would do to the economy.
I’m not going to write it, of course, because I’m too old and too lazy. Applications for the copyright are invited.
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