European Salon de News, Discussion et Klatsch - 23 April | 131 comments (131 topical, editorial, 0 hidden)

And a potential peace-maker...

(Exhibit A: Reagan & Gorbi; Exhibit B: from what I read on Wiki, the cartoon original of the IMO excellent Watchmen movie.)

_{*Lunatic*, n.

One whose delusions are out of fashion.}

by DoDo on Thu Apr 23rd, 2009 at 06:41:02 AM EST
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Things like the Invasion of the Body Snatchers and alien abduction in general (especially when abductees are subjected to mind-control or brainwashing, usuall through neural implants) is a sublimation of fear of foreign infiltration.

It is not a coincidence that these genres have their heyday at the peak of cold-war paranoia in the US in the 1950's.

Most economists teach a theoretical framework that has been shown to be fundamentally useless. -- James K. Galbraith

by Migeru (migeru at eurotrib dot com) on Thu Apr 23rd, 2009 at 06:46:32 AM EST
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In fact, many if not most sentient beings and societies in SF are a sublimation of some humans or societies as we (resp. the writer) know them here and now. While some of that is superb, I am not fond of the idea of SF as a mere analogy. That would make it an exercise in collective autism.

_{*Lunatic*, n.

One whose delusions are out of fashion.}

by DoDo on Thu Apr 23rd, 2009 at 06:57:20 AM EST
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Now, the question is whether (and how) Soviet-bloc science fiction themes from the cold war differ from American ones.

Anglo-American post-apocalyptic sci-fi (peaking in the 60's) has to do with the fear of nuclear war, but often this is expressed in stories about mass mortality from disease or ecological failure.

Most economists teach a theoretical framework that has been shown to be fundamentally useless. -- James K. Galbraith

by Migeru (migeru at eurotrib dot com) on Thu Apr 23rd, 2009 at 07:00:52 AM EST
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European Salon de News, Discussion et Klatsch - 23 April | 131 comments (131 topical, 0 editorial, 0 hidden)

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