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2015-02-01 Home Front: Culture Wars

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Posted by g(r)omgoru 2015-02-01 06:07|| || Front Page|| [2 views ] Top

#1 When did Marxists start loathing and fearing the working class? And admitting it?

When all their self righteous ego boosting plans fell apart trying to 'elevate' the masses. Can't admit their world was structured by a fundamental fallacy, that the 'poor' are simply victims of oppression. Human free will, which is an anathema to the dialectic, means people make choices that sometimes are self limiting and self destructive. In other words, the poor are often co-conspirators to their own fate. They are the ones who control and influence their 'rise' from the caste more than the self appointed saviors. Thus the Marxists simply became another set of Plantation owners with the same self justifying rationales why they are needed to run the place.

Posted by Procopius2k 2015-02-01 08:36|| 2015-02-01 08:36|| Front Page Top

#2 Sci Fi has been there done that before: Eloi and Morlocks.

Posted by OldSpook 2015-02-01 10:10|| 2015-02-01 10:10|| Front Page Top

#3 Go read the comments. These are solid people on that blog -- authors! They even do a riff on Unicorns working for the EPA in a timber company that uses werewolves as the night crew and a Vampire (what else!) as the night crew foreman.

Posted by OldSpook 2015-02-01 12:42|| 2015-02-01 12:42|| Front Page Top

#4 And sometimes a parody is better than the original. Wright decided he could write a better story in one sitting.

Posted by James 2015-02-01 13:19|| http://idontknowbut.blogspot.com 2015-02-01 13:19|| Front Page Top

#5 "choices that sometimes are self limiting and self destructive" I started noticing kids I knew doing this in late grade school. Realizing how common this was came as a great shock to my childish worldview.

Posted by Anguper Hupomosing9418 2015-02-01 13:23|| 2015-02-01 13:23|| Front Page Top

#6 Shirley Jackson's fantasy "The Lottery" originated as a riff on intra faculty politics and backbiting, IIRC at Bennington College in the 1940s, but turned into satire on human nature.
Academics still are uncomfortable with the Milgram experiments. The only test subject who behaved as a real mensch (again, IIRC) turned out to be a Holocaust survivor.

Posted by Anguper Hupomosing9418 2015-02-01 13:27|| 2015-02-01 13:27|| Front Page Top

#7 John Wright's story is superb.

Posted by Steve White 2015-02-01 14:27|| 2015-02-01 14:27|| Front Page Top

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