So where are we now, circa 1950? Campbell is parlaying nuke-age attention on SF into mainstream influence Heinlein is using YA fiction to slingshot into mainstream, and trying to get foot into space program Hubbard has found cultish feet Asimov starting to flex Reading on...
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Heh, early Scientology is reminding me of current blogosphere interest in trauma. Question is who’s the Hubbard of this crowd? A charismatic older blogger with vaguely occult leanings and a line in technobabble-infused talk therapy and a self-improvement/perfection protocol?
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Oh shit, I know exactly where to map this. Won’t say it out aloud to avoid beef provocation.
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Okay maybe a snippet or two. This bit made me actually lolpic.twitter.com/aM9w0jLW3r
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The book’s understanding of Wiener and cybernetics is weak. Planting a Gell-Mann amnesia flag for this bit. Like most outsiders he credits Wiener with way too much. He was at best a sort of P. T. Barnum of control theory with a few contributions.
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Fixing break in threading https://twitter.com/vgr/status/1234303017299542023?s=21 …https://twitter.com/vgr/status/1234303017299542023 …
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Sex and Rockets: The Occult World of Jack Parsons https://smile.amazon.com/dp/0922915970/ref=cm_sw_r_cp_apa_i_oXkxEb6K2S2S1 … is an interesting book about Jack Parsons, Hubbard, the occult, and the invention of the modern solid fuel rocket.
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