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No Need For Trek Anymore
dcsmith writes "In an article at the LA Times, Orson Scott Card says 'So they've gone and killed Star Trek. And it's about time.' SciFi blasphemy? Not really. Card makes several good observations about the growth of SciFi over the past 30+ years. The article also comments on several other genre gems, including Joss Whedon's Firefly." From the article: "...the hungry fans called their friends and they watched it faithfully. They memorized the episodes. I swear I've heard of people who quit their jobs and moved just so they could live in a city that had Star Trek running every day."
I submit "as a single mass" as a reasonable translation of en masse from French to English, the need for which is evident to the reader who notices that neither "en" or "masse" are common English words. I doubt many people would interpret the English construction "in mass" to mean the same thing, if they even managed any interpretation at all. I conclude that the two "terms" do not have the same utility in conversation and are not interchangeable.
I'm not wrong. We agree that he's insane. He's got a particularly Christian kind of insanity going. And that all culminates in his demands that homosexuals stay in the closet (like marrying their opposite gender if they want "marriage"). When the courts find that the law doesn't prevent same-gender marriage, that's not making laws, it's interpreting the laws as written - and as justice demands. I'd say (without having read Earthfall) that his occasional fairness in depicting homosexual characters is just more evidence for his own inner homosexual empathies, which his religion works into an insane effort of denial, as represented so clearly in outlandish rationalizations like the antigay screed to which I linked. So, smile - I'm right, and we agree!
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Most homophobes, like most religious nuts with a job, are skilled at compartmentalizing to repress their inevitable contradictions. Many American Christians have mastered the idea of "tough love", where bigotry is "for their own good" when they oppress people.
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