Who owns the future?
The Libertarian Enterprise
by L. Neil Smith
10/18/09
Half of America holds ‘values’ which already have begun sucking them back into a festering Dark Age that they will never recover from. They’re grimly intent on dragging the rest of us down with them. ‘Everybody in! Nobody out!’ the demonstrators chant menacingly in support of medicalized Marxism. It’s perfectly consistent that there is no genuinely forward-looking science fiction left in mainstream America — which seems to have abandoned any curiosity ever had about the ’shape of things to come’ — and an ominously chilling warning that the future, apparently, now belongs to the Chinese, who appear to still believe that humankind can shape its own destiny, and to whom the cramped, narrow world of Star Trek must feel like a libertarian utopia...
http://www.ncc-1776.org/tle2009/tle541-20091018-02.html
Informant: Thomas L. Knapp
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=L.+Neil+Smith
by L. Neil Smith
10/18/09
Half of America holds ‘values’ which already have begun sucking them back into a festering Dark Age that they will never recover from. They’re grimly intent on dragging the rest of us down with them. ‘Everybody in! Nobody out!’ the demonstrators chant menacingly in support of medicalized Marxism. It’s perfectly consistent that there is no genuinely forward-looking science fiction left in mainstream America — which seems to have abandoned any curiosity ever had about the ’shape of things to come’ — and an ominously chilling warning that the future, apparently, now belongs to the Chinese, who appear to still believe that humankind can shape its own destiny, and to whom the cramped, narrow world of Star Trek must feel like a libertarian utopia...
http://www.ncc-1776.org/tle2009/tle541-20091018-02.html
Informant: Thomas L. Knapp
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=L.+Neil+Smith
rudkla - 19. Okt, 09:27
