kinda why i regard most classic SF as cultural masturbation, stroking your worldview by projecting it into the far future where it still holds, revealing what you knew all along, that it is fundamental truthhttps://twitter.com/MothRecess/status/921229629326729216 …
there's kind of a lot of self-stuffed straw men to point to, hypercompetent women with ray guns who live on rocket ships & turn into fawning simpletons who end every sentence with "darling" when a man pays attention to them because the author thinks that is the Nature of Woman
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Sturgeon's law applies. There's still good stuff from the past though, and not much in the present gets my attention, but then I'm biased.
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oh sure, i didn't say that just because it's jerking me off means i don't *like* it
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just unlike the people who think Baen Books is a political party i know the difference between being jerked off and having thought provoked
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I mean, you don't have to go that far back before the very idea that society could be radically different falls away.
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enh, i dunno, maybe the frequency of publication goes down but i don't think the idea of extremely different social organization has ever been that far off the beaten path, competitive cult-founding kids in the middle east 2000 years ago were doing it for kicks
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yeah? i mean, just off the top of my head we have cults that did nothing but fuck because sinning glorified divine forgiveness and cults that died out because reproduction was too much attachment to this world, seems like some variation
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Show me the cult that said 'fuck revelation, the future's what we make it'?
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yah, or those 'man makes monster' stories written by women who think men are frustrated by inability to give birth ;-)
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so long as you don't do them at the same time.
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LOL - Honor Harrington.......
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