Response to Spider Robinson on the State of Sci-Fi
Garund writes "A day or so ago Slashdot posted a story on Spider Robinson and his lament for Science Fiction. Well, other people, including Mark Oakley, publisher of one of my favorite independant comics, posted a response to Spider on his Thieves & Kings website (scroll about a third of the way down the page). Interesting take on it, I thought."
Only one of those books/concepts mentioned is actually conceivable given the current global context.
Welcome to Oceania, Winston!
I imagine you probably buy into the "benevolent savage" myth
Quite the opposite. I believe all of us are descended from savages who have been most malevolent at some stage or another.
Sometimes I'm not even sure we've really risen above it.
You make the mistake of thinking you can educate the fundamental stupidity out of people. You can't.