I’ll call this faction the Rabbits, after Scalzi’s “Gamma Rabbit” T-shirt and Vox Day’s extended metaphor about rabbits and rabbit warrens. Notable figures include Patrick & Theresa Nielsen Hayden and John Scalzi. This group is generally frightened of and hostile to indie publishing. This faction now includes the editors at every major SF publishing imprint except Baen and all of the magazines except Analog and controls the Science Fiction Writers of America (as demonstrated by their recent political purging of Theodore Beale, aka Vox Day). On the one hand, you have a faction that is broadly left-wing in its politics and believes it has a mission to purge SF of authors who are reactionary, racist, sexist et weary cetera. I consider this evaluation a serious mistake by at least one of the sides. That error bears on something I do very much care about, which is the health of the SF genre as a whole.īoth sides in this war believe they’re fighting about politics. And now I’m going to have to weigh in, because it seems to me that the side I might otherwise be most sympathetic to has made a rather basic error in its analysis. Recently, for a number of reasons I may go into in a later post, I’ve been forced to take a closer look at it. And trying to ignore it, as I believed it was largely irrelevant to any of my concerns and I have friends on both sides of the divide. Well, there’s you and maybe a few others, but you can’t tell the difference, because the bots wear a million masks.I’ve been aware for some time of a culture war simmering in the SF world. They look like people, they act like people, but there are no people left. Under your nose, the Internet of real people has gradually shifted into a digital world of shadow puppets. Is this a message? Is this what schizophrenia is like?ĭread gives way to the cold stab of terrible certainty as it hits you: they aren’t people. Your favorite niche YouTuber has only recently been posting new content with any regularity. Influencers are coordinated in their talking points like puppets being pulled by the same strings. There haven’t been any new memes for some time, only recycled iterations of old ones. Your favorite posters have vanished from all platforms. Why is everything a little bit different now? The smallest details are wrong. You’ve noticed patterns in conversations that are beyond your conscious mind’s power to decipher there’s a rhythm to trends and replies that did not exist before.Ī vague dread grips you. For a while now, the microcelebrities on Twitter have been engaging with you more than they should be, more than they were a few months ago. There’s no proof, but your instincts are sure of it. You’re in your happy place, engaging with the thoughts and creations of countless individuals at your leisure. On an ordinary morning, you cradle a steaming cup of coffee while scrolling through your social media feeds. Neoclown Admits the Defeat of “the West”ĭespite the theory, but a lot of it is most certainly fake.REPRODUCTION WITHOUT WRITTEN PERMISSION IS EXPRESSLY PROHIBITED. Dawkins)Īrchives Archives Search for: Castalia House Mailing ListĪLL BLOG POSTS AND COMMENTS COPYRIGHT (C) 2003-2022 VOX DAY. Things That Happened Before the Earthquake, Chiara BarziniĪ Night in the Lonesome October, Roger ZelaznyĬhronicles of a Liquid Society, Umberto EcoĪTHEIST DEMOTIVATORS Atheism (R. Longing and Other Stories, Junchiro TanizakiĪ Cat, a Man, and Two Women, Junchiro Tanizaki Red Roofs and Other Stories, Junchiro Tanizaki The Temptation of Forgiveness, Donna Leone The Return of History and the End of Dreams, Robert Kagan Studies in Napoleonic Warfare, Charles Oman The Cook of the Halcyon, Andrea Camilleri The Other End of the Line, Andrea Camilleri The Overnight Kidnapper, Andrea Camilleri Montalbano's First Case, Andrea Camilleri The Dance of the Seagull, Andrea Camilleri The Wings of the Sphinx, Andrea Camilleri The Patience of the Spider, Andrea Camilleri Ode to the Small Creature Who Takes Refuge in My BootīOOK LIST 2023 Caravan of the Damned, Chuck DixonĬolorless Tsukuru Tazaki and his Years of Pilgrimage, Haruki Murakami NON-FICTION DOWNLOADS THE IRRATIONAL ATHEIST
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