Wars, hot or cold, are also missing from standard science fiction versions of the future. Interplanetary wars don’t count, and neither do wars with robots or zombies. I mean wars among nation-states or global alliances or regional blocs. George Orwell’s 1984, inspired in part by James Burnham’s The Managerial Revolution, imagined a world divided among three totalitarian blocs: Oceania, Eurasia, and Eastasia. I can’t think of any other well-known examples of geopolitics in science fiction.— Michael Lind. Everything that Lind says is missing from SF may be found in, to cite just one example among many possible ones, the work of Ursula K. LeGuin. Given that LeGuin is one of the most famous SF writers in the world, and Lind appears not to be familiar with her work, then perhaps his declarations about what SF does and does not do should be taken with a truckload of salt.
thingsmagazine: Hoxton Square, by Adam Dant
the conspiracy is real
W/the unprecedented & now documented corruption at the dark heart of HRC campaign, why would ANYONE accept the results till they're proven?
— Eric Metaxas (@ericmetaxas) October 20, 2016
So the assumption here is that Hillary Clinton has a giant secret army of operatives assigned to thousands of polling places around the country to alter our votes? Plausible! But no more plausible than the assumption that that very same giant secret army is working with known Communists to control our minds through the fluoride in our drinking water. Prove to me that she’s not doing it, if you can.
But for anyone who’s serious about the threats to our social order, and our precious bodily fluids, this is the real worry:
So, you don’t think that space alien baby, now grown up and entered into its full powers, is even now preparing the scheme that will ship Trump voters to the asteroid belt to wear out their lives as slave labor in the mineral mines. Can you prove to me that it’s not gonna happen?
Didn’t think so.
and then when it's convenient they'll change back
No group has shifted their position more dramatically than white evangelical Protestants. More than seven in ten (72%) white evangelical Protestants say an elected official can behave ethically even if they have committed transgressions in their personal life—a 42-point jump from 2011, when only 30 % of white evangelical Protestants said the same.
— PRRI
Pentti Lumikangas Venetsian muisto 1984
[gallery] rare-posters:
Cycles Brillant. 1925. A. M. Cassandre.30 3/8 x 46 1/8 in./77.1 x 117.2 cm
This is one of Cassandre’s most economically realized images, with every line, curve, and shape serving a well-defined function. It is also one of his rarest: it nearly defies logic that such a splendid image was not preserved with more available copies. The reason may well be that this was one of the very first posters ever created by the master.
