Predictions Re: The Politics Of Gene Wolfe

António Pedro Marques · 29 Jul 2012, 00:52 · from 2012-July.txt.gz

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Subject: (urth) Predictions Re: The Politics Of Gene Wolfe
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No dia 28/07/2012, ?s 15:18, Gwern Branwen <gwern0 at gmail.com> escreveu:

> On Sat, Jul 28, 2012 at 9:45 AM, Fernando Gouvea <fqgouvea at colby.edu> wrote:
>> I'm wondering why you care so much.
> 
> I have a long-standing interest in predictions and what they reveal,
> which would alone would justify my interest, but besides that...
> 
> I care because I wish one of my favorite authors to be an
> intellectually respectable author, perhaps along the lines of
> Chesterton or Buckley or Charles Murray who I also enjoy reading, and
> it's disappointing to me to see that it's not a few allusions or plot
> twists that I perhaps was simply misinterpreting or being overly
> sensitive to.
> 
> And also because people here seem to have a hard time accepting it, so
> additional data is welcome; witness the previous attempts to explain
> it all away, or in this thread the suggestion that maybe he was joking
> or trolling!

I've read it again. I can see no connection between the predictions and your comments on them. You even say all of them are wrong, except most of them. About the only thing wrong there is the one on sex, which is so alien that people are justified in seeing it all as mere ideas to play with. More than the missing fall of the SU, the two important things no one had predicted are the rise of islamic fundamentalism and the Russian mafia.
Unless you mean that the vision of controlling government is bonkers. Well, sorry, but you'll have to look very hard to find an sf writer who doesn't share that view. 
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