The Great Divorce

[Valin]

Sarah Hoyt:

Sarah Hoyt

September 13, 2015

 

No, this is not a post on my marital status, which is fine thankyouverymuch. It’s rather a definition/sense of something going on in the culture, where the current situation comes from, what it means, and an exploration of where it might take us in the future.

 

If you think that’s too large for a post, yeah, it is. For months now, I’ve been contemplating doing a series of posts about it, but getting slammed away to other things. It’s going to happen now, partly because Dorothy asked me a question about a mechanism of political signaling, and how it has lost its power, but is still being followed, slavishly, by those for whom it used to pay off, and I realized it was part of “the great divorce.”

 

It will touch on science fiction, some of whose movements I’ve observed up close and personal over the last fifteen years, and more distantly probably for 35, but it is not a series per-se about science fiction. Heck, in its largest arc it touches the upcoming elections and why we are in the basket, on greased skids.

 

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Still, there are things beyond writing this affects, including the economy (as various bankers, financiers, etc — remember it’s become the culture of the upper class, period, not just the creative class — execute the roll-left-and-take-institution-down in expectations of a proffered offer and smooth sailing for them.

 

They won’t get it. And eventually the culture will change.

 

The bad news is there will be hell to pay on the way there as people who believed the pablum they were fed and who can’t figure out what’s wrong with it take down institutions that are vital for survival in a civilized society.

 

If this were only science fiction, or only in writing, it wouldn’t matter. But this is everywhere, and we must get past this. Technology and reality are on our side, but I won’t lie to you — I think there’s no way to avoid the unpleasant portions. We can shorten them. We can work towards a better aftermath. But I don’t think we can avoid it.

 

Built under, build over, build around. And hurry, for the night is coming, where no man may work.

 

The good news is in the end we win they loose.

 

 

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"There's Something Happening Here. What It Is Ain't Exactly Clear"

Stephen Stills (For What Its Worth 1966)

[Valin]

PS: Read The Comments (For A Refreshing Change) No Screaming..Hollering..Chest Thumping...Name Calling.

[WestVirginiaRebel]

Check out Sarah Hoyt's Human Wave science fiction manifesto for her thoughts on what's wrong with sci-fi today, as well.

[Valin]

Check out Sarah Hoyt's Human Wave science fiction manifesto for her thoughts on what's wrong with sci-fi today, as well.

 

SJW...Why We Can't Have Nice Things Anymore.

 

Sci-Fy started taking itself waaaay to seriously years ago. This is never a good thing. "The Plays The Thing." Billy Shakespeare...dead white guy