SciFi politics

Chris · 11 Jan 2005, 15:25 · from 2005-January.txt.gz

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From: rasputin_ at hotmail.com (Chris)
Date: Tue Jan 11 15:25:06 2005
Subject: (urth) SciFi politics
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I am undecided on the supply-side economics bit, but I did not think that 
the gun-ownership bit was clumsily inserted either; it's quite to the point 
and a real concern in the particular political situation Silk found himself 
in. And ultimately it seemed to me like Silk's position on guns, at that 
point, was largely a matter of political pragmatism rather than universal 
principle. To me, the issue there wasn't "gun control" but rather the 
distribution of power to individuals in an unstable, revolutionary 
atmosphere.

I am not sure that Wolfe could even have realistically avoided the subject.

> >I wouldn't go so far as to endorse this point of view whole-heartedly,
> >but I was struck by how jarring the paeans to supply-side economics and
> >universal gun ownership were in Exodus from the Long Sun.  At the time
> >they seemed so clumsily inserted that I wasn't sure if they were satire
> >or GW's views.... Now I assume the latter?
>
>I didn't think they were clumsily inserted. I think they were jarring
>because the plurality of SciFi writers are politically liberal.
>
>Thus, placing favorable views to gun-ownership and supply-side economics in
>the mouth of a very simpathic and (presented as) wise character might have
>caught you unaware if you did not previously know of Wolfe's conservative
>politics.
>
>~ Crush
>
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