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Spider Robinson And The State Of Science Fiction
pcb writes "There is a rather decent
rant in today's Globe & Mail from Spider Robinson (of the
Callahan series fame) regarding the dismal state of science fiction, in
which he laments that the future is not what it used to be. While
attending Torcon 3, the 61st
World SF Convention, he notes that SF readers today seem to prefer the
Tolkienesque fantasies of some forgotten past, rather than the forward-looking works of science and space travel that used to dominate the
genre. Are SF stories from authors like Heinlein, Clarke or Asimov
irrelevant today, as people look into the past to dream rather than the
future? Robinson asks: 'Why are our imaginations retreating from
science and space, and into fantasy?'"
Liv Tyler.
Next question?
Why are our imaginations retreating from science and space, and into fantasy?
Because Bush completely fucked up the world and has rendered the geopolitical order more unstable than at any time in history. People know intrinsically they are fucked, due to Bush's policies, and so are retreating into fantasy land to have a feeling of solace.
YOU FUCKERZ! I hate every last one of you butt smoking bukkake slurping mother fucking faggortz. You are simply out of your league when you try to aspire to being as 31337 as I am. If anyone mods this down, you will forever be a pussy who won't get any action for individuals of your desired sexual preference. So why don't you just shut the fuck up and die? Don't you fucking dare to mod me down!!!
Now onto the serious but admitedly off topic stuff:
Why is it that when someone posts something like I just did above, the immediate knee-jerk reaction of moderators is to mod it down instead of responding to it? Sure, it's off-topic, but it does warrant some kind of response. After all the whole idea of "please don't feed the trolls" is just ludicrous! Sometimes, by responding to well crafted trolls like the one above, it's possible to get some very interesting reactions out of people and find out a little bit more about ourselves as a community. The Slashdot community is slowly having the life extinguished from it by moderators who do their best to "sanitize" Slashdot into some kind of boring web publication instead of what it really excels at: being a web community.
The thing that has irked me the most since I've been a Slashdot reader (since 1997) is that Slashdot has become less humorous and obscure. What I mean by obscure is the brand of humor, not the notoriety of Slashdot. This is a sad thing since one of the most attractive features of Slashdot used to be that it was a community of people who were just "slightly off" from the rest of society. The people who have become members as of late, are not that brand of person and definitely should not dictate the way that Slashdot is run. In fact, I would aruge that the original "slightly off" members should be the ones who dictate how the new members interact with the site. After all, this is OUR site. Not the AOHell, MSN, Microsoftian "computer know it all" masses that have been polluting the culture since the rise of the dotbombs. Face it, if you can't deal with a CLI and you got your first computer post-1980, then you don't belong on Slashdot.
Now... the challenge:
Who will respond to this valliant post that dares to question the current status quo of Slashdot which, frankly, sucks? I want intelligent responses. Not just stupid "fuck off" or "I AM SHITTING CORN IN YOUR FORESKIN" types of responses. No Goatse responses either. (Although we must all hail the power of the Giver and the Receiver).
w3rd.
Fucking lame and unrealistic. That is not going to happen. I only read the first couple of paragraphs, but in the future people will not speak with British accents, not even the Brits, and they will not call each other "Lord." So fag off and go audition for a place in one of those "lighting bolt! lighting bolt!" films.
So kill yourself and escape this horrible world, loser. Die. No one needs you. No one wants you.
hey you fucking bastard didn't you read before posting. :-/it is "Harry Potter"!
Trolling with myself.
[]'s Victor Bogado da Silva Lins
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