73/ The Lathe of Heaven by Ursula K LeGuin explores free will and Daoism in a story about a man who can dream the world into changing itself
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if I could wave a wand, I would not say "turnabout is fair play" and throw the commies out of the field ; the result of that would be terrible. Nothing but endless red-tribe prepper fiction and third rate Heinlein pastiche. The field needs the constant interplay of opinions.
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It needs Heinlein writing the quasi fascist Starship Troopers, and Haldemann - who, unlike Heinlein, had actually seen combat - rebutting it with The Forever War. It needs Ecotopia, and it needs Fallen Angels to mock ecotopians. Feedback loops create health.
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One party states create gray Brezhnevite lassitude, illness, and - finally - death.
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not sure if this is a subtweet addition to my thread or just coincidence, but it fits into my point perfectlyhttps://twitter.com/0x49fa98/status/1331615475827159040 …
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Moldbug noticed this in his review of BAM. "The mainstream mind looks at its own bubble through a fisheye lens. All of outer space, all of history, is a tiny black fringe around it. This fringe is, of course, completely uninhabitable." https://americanmind.org/features/conservatism-in-the-bronze-age/the-deep-state-vs-the-deep-right/ …
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