On 08/28/2016 10:57 AM, Razer wrote: > > > On 08/28/2016 08:58 AM, Kurt Buff wrote: >> Ants, termites and naked mole rats don't make for interesting SF.
Adrian Tchaikovsky's _Children of Time_ has good stuff about spiders (Portia) and ants. Greg Egan's _Clockwork Rocket_ features organisms like large paramecia who live in a four dimensional space with no timelike dimension. And they grow on you, after a while. > Kind of fond of naked mole rats myself. > > NOT fond of Reptilian Aliens... But They Live! really wasn't scifi. It > was a documentary https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G8MYnSZnK4M > > Humans are a slave species, digging for gold... And I'm all out of > bubblebum. That _is_ one of my favorite films :) >> On Sun, Aug 28, 2016 at 8:46 AM, Razer <ray...@riseup.net >> <mailto:ray...@riseup.net>> wrote: >> >> Ursula Le Guin recently called on Fantasy Fiction/SciFi writers to do >> something special. Visualize and write about a world without capitalism. >> >> Rr >> >> "People can visualize the end of the world but not the end of >> Capitalism" ~Adbusters (the journal of the mental environment) >> >> >> On 08/28/2016 01:12 AM, Александр wrote: >> > “We must always take sides”, >> > “Neutrality helps the oppressor, never the victim. Silence encourages >> > the tormentor, never the tormented.” Elie Wiesel urged in his >> > spectacular Nobel Prize speech. And yet, part of the human tragedy is >> > that despite our best intentions and our most ardent ideals, we often >> > lull ourselves into _neutrality_ in the face of INjustice — be it >> out of >> > fear for our own stability, or lack of confidence in our ability >> to make >> > a difference, or that most poisonous foible of the soul, the >> two-headed >> > snake of cynicism and apathy. >> > >> > We must unmoor ourselves from a _passivity_ we so masterfully >> > rationalize, remembering that INjustice anywhere is a threat to >> justice >> > everywhere, and rise to that awareness with moral courage and dignity! >> > >> > If and when INjustice become so deeply embedded in a society without >> > strong revolt against it, then even those whom this INjustice >> oppresses >> > long enough -> end up internalizing, accepting and even justifying it! >> > >> > The shift from denial of INjustice to recognition of injustice >> can’t be >> > unmade. What your eyes have seen they have seen. Once you see the >> > INjustice, you can never again in good faith deny the oppression and >> > defend the oppressor. *What was loyalty is now betrayal. From now >> on, if >> > you don’t resist, you collude. * >> > >> > /ursula le guin >> > >> > ___ >> > >> > >> > / >> > From Zenaan >> > >> >> Time to grow up folks. Own the damn mess. Clean up your shit. Get >> rid of >> >> those individuals who are evidently compromised in ways that can >> not be >> >> tolerated. >> > >> > >> > !!! >> > __ >> > >> > >> >> and we get either banned from the public discussion (Juan, Alex >> > (afalex169) and others), OR booted from the community and Tor Inc with >> > disgrace (Jacob Applebaum). >> > >> > >> > !!! >> > __ >> > >> > >> >> Yes, you sure do... plenty of work to clean up this mess - >> >> continue to pretend it does not exist at your peril. >> > >> > >> > !!! >> > __ >> > >> > >> >> in Tor Inc as well as any other corporation and >> >> demoncratic governments around the world, sociopathic individuals >> >> predominate. >> > >> > >> > !!! >> > __ >> > >> >> Tor Inc is not a "normal" company - none of you (employees of Tor >> Inc) >> > are held by us in >> >> the Tor community as "normal" employees or "regular" folks - we have >> >> been, are, and shall continue to hold you to a higher standard >> than we >> >> hold "normal" capitalist 'pigs' to. >> > >> > __ >> > >> > !!! >> > >> >> And take good notice - it is perhaps most often your non-actions, >> which >> >> demonstrate your tacit support for evils done, which have the >> greatest >> >> consequences in our consciousness. >> >> >> >> Meet our (!!) standard and you shall stand as heroes. >> > >> > >> > !!! >> > __ >> > >> >> Fail to meet our standard and you and your purported principles shall >> >> forever be "the ones who fell from grace, disgraced themselves and >> >> disgraced the community, spitting on the very principles we all >> held to >> >> be sacred and inviolable". >> > >> > >> > !!! >> > __ >> > >> > >> >> Time to participate folks. Every one. >> > >> > !!! >> > >> > ____ >> > >> > *Thank you very much for this Message, Zenaan. >> > You are the voice of Suzie Dawson (suzi3d.com/ >> <http://suzi3d.com/> <http://suzi3d.com/>), >> > mine and many other good-hearted People. >> > >> > It's time for Actions. It's time to REVOLT against this INtollerable >> > Evil and INjustice against Appelbaum... against ALL THE HIGHER >> > PRINCIPLES! It's time (and it was since the first day of this smear >> > campaign) to EXPOSE all the scumbags who created the slander against >> > Jake AND those who silently accepted it >> > -> >> > AND KICK THEIR FUCKEN ASSES OUT OF THE COMMUNITY!* >> > >> >> >
