Watching old sci fi movies is almost certainly an escape, at least at some level. Here's a delicately charming sci fi story which has no ray guns and only shows what humans are capable of being. (Ithaka: "The People" (1972) | Kim Darby, William Shatner | Book by Zenna Henderson)
Some cop shot an unarmed man in Florida and that's not even uncommon these days but this one had been advised by fellow officers the man was unarmed and the cop shot him anyway. All of that is documented in transcripts, etc.
We need to fix all this willful violence but we can't so that leaves sci fi but that walks past a gaping hole; it's the same one a whole lot of others are willing to keep somewhere else too.
Who can take this shit when it comes day after day in a torrent of raging madness in which people are furious at just about everything except their own failings. Maybe those psychotics are a minority but they are so loud and have so many guns that many are suppressed and intimidated by them.
We're not much afraid of standard-model terrorists but we're terrified of crazies with guns. At least with some Middle Eastern terrorist, we can probably spot him but we have no chance with these maniacs.
Yes, I know they're a minority but they're fucking dangerous and they're way, way out of control.
We have no guns and we're not willing to get shot by some raving psychotic so we watch sci fi. It's the same approach as existence in the corporate world since those hellholes are as Republican as it ever gets so don't you speak.
The Silas didn't change at all in terms of flipping out to any Left wing since I've been there all my life but you must not speak in the corporate world or it will cost you.
Ed: you should have flipped them off and walked. Life is too short for wardogs and they only make it shorter.
You're right so that one is a legitimate regret. It was a major mistake.
Listening to the wardogs means nothing because really ... Ithaka: We Only Listen to the Singers
I was never involved with making any military thing except in the larger sense of international predation in a corrupt banking system and nor was I involved with any of the corruption in the bank. The wardogs in such places are the ones who get a bone from hyping combat. I met very few ex-military in the corporate world, only wardogs.
Ed: that's another reason for sci fi?
Damn sure is. The amusement for me is wardogs think sci fi is fake but, of course, they would, wouldn't they.
Ed: wardogs don't believe in anything but football
Yah, imaginative lot, aren't they.
Ed: there's no football in sci fi either
Roger that. What's not to like.
Some cop shot an unarmed man in Florida and that's not even uncommon these days but this one had been advised by fellow officers the man was unarmed and the cop shot him anyway. All of that is documented in transcripts, etc.
We need to fix all this willful violence but we can't so that leaves sci fi but that walks past a gaping hole; it's the same one a whole lot of others are willing to keep somewhere else too.
Who can take this shit when it comes day after day in a torrent of raging madness in which people are furious at just about everything except their own failings. Maybe those psychotics are a minority but they are so loud and have so many guns that many are suppressed and intimidated by them.
We're not much afraid of standard-model terrorists but we're terrified of crazies with guns. At least with some Middle Eastern terrorist, we can probably spot him but we have no chance with these maniacs.
Yes, I know they're a minority but they're fucking dangerous and they're way, way out of control.
We have no guns and we're not willing to get shot by some raving psychotic so we watch sci fi. It's the same approach as existence in the corporate world since those hellholes are as Republican as it ever gets so don't you speak.
The Silas didn't change at all in terms of flipping out to any Left wing since I've been there all my life but you must not speak in the corporate world or it will cost you.
Ed: you should have flipped them off and walked. Life is too short for wardogs and they only make it shorter.
You're right so that one is a legitimate regret. It was a major mistake.
Listening to the wardogs means nothing because really ... Ithaka: We Only Listen to the Singers
I was never involved with making any military thing except in the larger sense of international predation in a corrupt banking system and nor was I involved with any of the corruption in the bank. The wardogs in such places are the ones who get a bone from hyping combat. I met very few ex-military in the corporate world, only wardogs.
Ed: that's another reason for sci fi?
Damn sure is. The amusement for me is wardogs think sci fi is fake but, of course, they would, wouldn't they.
Ed: wardogs don't believe in anything but football
Yah, imaginative lot, aren't they.
Ed: there's no football in sci fi either
Roger that. What's not to like.
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