the ideas that lay the foundation for the Matrix are so hoary that they were ancient when philosophy was new. i'm not going to look up the actual dialogue, but even plato, when presented with the concept of world-as-elaborate-illusion, wondered aloud why anyone would want to dredge up "such old matters" and moved on to more interesting topics. finding yourself intellectually stimulated by the matrix is kind of like getting wasted on one beer right after giving blood.
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just in case you were wondering, steam-tunnel infiltration is not new. here at VT we have a long-standing tradition of "running" the tunnels
(one i personally have nothing to do with) that goes all the way back to my father's frat days. that makes it at least...um...35 years old or so.
that might be true, but just imagine what sort of material spielberg would be dealing with. are their approaches toward sf at all compatible?
card crafts his "piggies" and "buggers" with self-conscious avoidance of anthropomorphism that renders them truly nonhuman-- inscrutable, essentially foreign to human values. spielberg, on the other hand, concerns himself chiefly with familiarizing the strange, especially when dealing with alien intelligence-- even better if that sentient goes well on a T-shirt. would he be willing-- or even able-- to take hold of Card's ideas without drawing them into the warm-and-fuzzy spielbergian universe? I seriously doubt it.
The first impression a person is likely to get from much of card's early work is that he is either a lax mormon or a very liberal "free love" christian in the style of the oneida perfectionists. Card not only manages to sneak homosexuality into almost *every* novel without submitting it to much moral scrutiny either direct or indirect, but also tends to frame same-sex relationships in terms of a highly poeticized eroticism. reading his books in high school, i never once got the impression that Card might not approve of homosexuality. now that i look back on the earlier novels, i can see where you might locate some anti-gay moralizing, but any pretense on card's part to take a moral tone against the homosexual relationships he frequently creates pales beside his eagerness to indulge in elaborate poetic renderings of the very thing he claims to condemn as an abomination.
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the ideas that lay the foundation for the Matrix are so hoary that they were ancient when philosophy was new. i'm not going to look up the actual dialogue, but even plato, when presented with the concept of world-as-elaborate-illusion, wondered aloud why anyone would want to dredge up "such old matters" and moved on to more interesting topics. finding yourself intellectually stimulated by the matrix is kind of like getting wasted on one beer right after giving blood.
just in case you were wondering, steam-tunnel infiltration is not new. here at VT we have a long-standing tradition of "running" the tunnels (one i personally have nothing to do with) that goes all the way back to my father's frat days. that makes it at least...um...35 years old or so.
that might be true, but just imagine what sort of material spielberg would be dealing with. are their approaches toward sf at all compatible? card crafts his "piggies" and "buggers" with self-conscious avoidance of anthropomorphism that renders them truly nonhuman-- inscrutable, essentially foreign to human values. spielberg, on the other hand, concerns himself chiefly with familiarizing the strange, especially when dealing with alien intelligence-- even better if that sentient goes well on a T-shirt. would he be willing-- or even able-- to take hold of Card's ideas without drawing them into the warm-and-fuzzy spielbergian universe? I seriously doubt it.
The first impression a person is likely to get from much of card's early work is that he is either a lax mormon or a very liberal "free love" christian in the style of the oneida perfectionists. Card not only manages to sneak homosexuality into almost *every* novel without submitting it to much moral scrutiny either direct or indirect, but also tends to frame same-sex relationships in terms of a highly poeticized eroticism. reading his books in high school, i never once got the impression that Card might not approve of homosexuality. now that i look back on the earlier novels, i can see where you might locate some anti-gay moralizing, but any pretense on card's part to take a moral tone against the homosexual relationships he frequently creates pales beside his eagerness to indulge in elaborate poetic renderings of the very thing he claims to condemn as an abomination.