I'm gonna be scrupulous and say Cormac McCarthy et al have explored the idea of "outlaws gone mad" w/o equating them to Natives
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Replying to @arthur_affect @BootlegGirl
It is true that the idea of "going mad outside of civilization" has unfortunately always had echoes of denigrating "savages" though
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Since "civilization" always must be defined by naming existing cultures alongside it as "barbaric"
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I mean, I like Lovecraft stuff and it makes sense to me that if you spent enough time in deep, deep space you might... change.
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Yeah, although I'd say the correct view isn't that one social context is better than another but that changing contexts is dangerous
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The white guy lost in the woods becomes "savage" not bc the woods are inherently savage but bc HE doesn't think of the woods as civilization
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The danger of being a place where things "don't count", even a virtual place
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This is the natural antithesis of Mal's love of "freedom" and a frontier where you can escape social context and reinvent yourself
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And in any case, they ruined it all by blaming it on fucking space benzos
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Yeah I would like a meditation on the allure of the "frontier" that points out the frontier is a novelty, an artificial construct
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It was created by looking at an existing set of civilizations, saying they didn't count, wiping them out
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Which is where so much science fiction - and I include my own shit in this - tries to address Imperialism and fails
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I mean, it's like... Space is probably full of a lot of places that if we had FTL we could settle and not oppress people
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