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Right-Wing Futurists Are Already Predicting the Liberal Dystopia
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11/06/08
[www.igp-scifi.com]
11/06/08
On the other hand, I'd be greatly interested to see io9 cover the history of propaganda, dystopia/utopian fiction, government/politics, and science fiction. I imagine some kind of history covering authors like Zamyatin, Vonnegut, Rand, Le Guin, LaHaye/Jenkins. Perhaps examples pulled from tv and film? One could even stretch this over early utopian fiction (some use time travel, others travel over sea to a distant land, which can be considered as space travel). In the Inferno, Dante encounters two men so evil, their souls reside in hell while their bodies are occupied by devils. Early body snatching!
I guess my basic point is that I'd be a lot more receptive to reading and learning about such things if we could actually take it seriously as science fiction.
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No wait! you'd all just rather continue the nonsense because your right is the *only* way.
11/05/08
Meanwhile, a whole 10 book apocalypse themed series could be penned about the Right Wing Dystopia. I've already got a synopsis, check it: "In 2035, in a divided world where the concept of God has been replaced by the latest currency, the Amero (this is real BTW, look it up) and the nations of the world are run by a Republican political singularity, a former teacher, now a contracted gun runner, struggles with her family to survive in the last Michigan suburb as the petrol, weapons and money fueled civil war raging across the mid-west threatens to spread northwards. When she is penalized by the Tax Collection League for tax delinquency, she, in a desperate act of survival, attempts to smuggle her family into Mexico--now a part of The United Socialist States of Canada. But when The National Guard--now a freelance mercenary force--catches her son at the border and discovers that his name is on the International Enemy Combatant Ledger, she is forced to fight her way across the hostile terrain of a militarized dog-eat-dog America to save her son from the horrors of an indefinite term in the World Penitentiary.
I believe that pwns the pedophile troop masters of the "Obama Regime".
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also, rabble rabble rabble!
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Personally, I'd rather see it get the lulz and ridicule it deserves, than have it fester in some screwball right-wing websites.
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You might want to try working harder at recognizing when someone's covering something versus advocating it. Big difference, that. :)
11/05/08
So, thanks to you, american people who vote for Obama, you did vote for all of us in the foreign contrys.
11/05/08
i mean if you're gay, that means you're also a child molester, right?
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Obviously.
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Obama is neither monster nor messiah, he's just a politician. I'm sure he'll do fine, and we'll still have problems.
I disagree with plenty of his positions, but so what? Other people get to have their say too, and I disagree with plenty of the current guy's positions, too.
I see no point to publishing this ridiculous crap, or the ridiculous crap from the other end of the political spectrum. It's about as science-fiction related as a photo of manure.
Now that the election's over, maybe you guys could degrade the site with politics a little less often?
-Kle.
11/05/08
Since science fiction has always been a vehicle of expressing messages (moral and political) I think the two go hand in hand. Plus, it's not like they post off topic stuff, it's related to sci-fi.
11/05/08
As far as Obamatopia is concerned. As a person who has only been really aware of elections from 2000 and beyond, I have to say, I've never felt anything quite like this before. I've never been proud to be an American, not really, until last night. I know that things won't be perfect, I get that, but damn, what a hell of a leap in the right direction.
11/05/08
The really ridiculous thing here is that Porn had been in Gas Station's since the 50's at least. (Remember all those nudie calendar pinups in the local Garage)?
Of course now that creates a "hostile environment". And remind me again - which side complains about THAT? ;)
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Both, really.
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Um, both sides have been against sexually explicit images in public for a while now. If anything, I considered appropriateness in a public space to be a republican value.
In all seriousness, it's not a bad thing. I think you're digging for arguments here.
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DRINK!
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I got better.