I can tell this means a lot to you. I prefer science fiction tho.

It’s something I haven’t delved into enough to arrive at a definitive conclusion, actually. The subject delivers little thrill for me.

No, modern sci-fi evolved over time like all the other complex stuff tends to.

Modern sci-fi is created by every fellow with strange idea. Who thinks maybe I could get my idea across better if I framed it as a narrative and put it in scientific terms. because science is such a lovely language for talking about strange ideas.

Greg Egan, Iain Banks and Sam Hughes are good stuff, if you haven’t.

Also, there’s this amazing new genre, “LitRpg”. Basically fantasy where an rpg type videogame became real.

Most of it is the usual dreck but some of it goes hard sf, delving into the existential stuff.

A couple of the rationalists have even taken a swing.

Try

Mother of Learning

Death after death

Friendship is optimal

So ya, real development is still alive.

No, that’s just your damn limited, dominance games obsessed perspective talking.

My point is actually the quality and appreciation of modern science fiction.

Oh zing!

See, it’s always an argument over value with you people.

So it’s always about who gets the credit. Who gets valued and who doesn’t. Who wins and who loses. That eternal muck of monkey dominance battles.

This bs dominates the common mind utterly. There’s no room for art there. It’s invisible.

It’s always an argument over value with you people.

I don’t refer to mary shelly. I do not distinguish her as the “inventor” of science fiction either. Rendering strange ideas in terms of esoteric disciplines for the metaphorical augmentation or whatever is as old as humanity.

I like scifi. I like to explore the strange and push past the walls of reality. I like dangerous visions. Big ideas.

But interpersonal drama, identity-stroking and, yes, politics. It’s just weak and boring. It’s small. Damn small.

Do you see the difference?

Unfortunately the majority of people prefer the small stuff so that’s who they write for.

Scifi will always be a niche culture.

This popular stuff is not scifi. It’s the old dumb crap dressed up in spaceships and aliens.

Sometimes startrek goes big. Sometimes it doesn’t.

This is me irl.

Except for the 2 or 3 hours after my morning meditation (Shikantaza).

For that time I am vastly enthusiastic, creative, full of energy and get lots of stuff done.

Which is why you people need to start meditating.

(And I need to start meditating twice a day)

It’s like dreaming (like you do when you go to sleep) except moreso

Because you already have an account set up with amazon.

Because you’ve used amazon before and feel comfortable with them.

My real estate agent calls it “depersonalizing” the space. Remove all signs that it is occupied by humans with personalities. Make it like a furniture store.

Ideally we’ll do that to the whole world. Everything clean, grey, odorless.

Maybe all digital content just shouldn’t be trusted. It’s like some kind of demon-realm or something. Navigable by the wise but for common fools like you and I, perilous. Full of illusion.

The billionaires with their hand up Trump’s ass are clearly more evil than the billionaires with their hand up Biden’s ass.

Lots of stuff should be tagged but isn’t.

Bad faith arguments. Rhetoric. Information gotten from dubious sources. Metaphors that might be taken literally… Lots of stuff.

Yes, tags would be a great addition to common language. I’d put them right up there with emojis