• David Gerard@awful.systemsM
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      nah. under whatever name, the reactionary racists have been in the rationalist subculture since the '90s at latest

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          yeah, I have posited previously that the California Ideology traces in a straight line through science fiction to Rudyard Kipling.

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          Ah, I do believe I now see a bit of an extra in the reason for the makeup of the story in that one writer/writing episode of DS9

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          In the first Foundation story, there’s a weird mention of applying symbolic logic to human language that comes from nowhere and goes nowhere. Campbell insisted upon it because

          he felt in our discussions that symbolic logic, further developed, would so clear up the mysteries of the human mind as to leave human actions predictable. The reason human beings are so unpredictable was we didn’t really know what they were saying and thinking because language is generally used obscurely. So what we needed was something that would unobscure the language and leave everything clear.

          Clear being a fortuitous choice of wording on Asimov’s part there, given, well.

          TESCREAL and Scientology don’t just share methodology; they both descend directly from “Golden Age” science fiction. In this essay I will

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        you’re so much more graciously subtle than I’m feeling tonight, but then I did clock my brain out after this fucker of a week