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 …
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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lol yeah that one's rough. are we sure enlightenment values define SF though? what with how the twist "they turn out to be Adam and Eve!" is so fucking hackneyed any given slush reader still has to reject it multiple times daily?
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but I didn't say enlightenment *values* define SF, Shelly was reacting against them, and is the Adam and Eve stuff really SF?
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