Happy Bats

An Interesting Study For The Science Fiction Writer

~The prediction is spot on, but the details are both primitive and parochial. That is something that I am personally concerned about in my own work, that I get the overview right, but am so wrong on the details that it looks ridiculous in retrospect. That William Gibson admits totally overlooking cellphones in Neuromancer therefore gives me some cold comfort.

Trivia Note: The woman in the video is Marj Dusay; a few years later she stole Spock's brain.

Life in The Desert

~It is presently 94° and 15% humidity. [posted for my records]

To Defeat The Corporate State Takes Patience and Guile

“Do not expect to defeat The Corporate State at the ballot box. Big Money can power its way through almost any election cycle. That is not however a call for Revolution. Big Money can power its way through those as well and rather unpleasantly.

Instead it must always be remembered that by its conscienceless and rapacious nature, the thing sows the seeds of its own destruction. Therefore what is required is both the ability to survive its collapse and to have another functional structure extent to replace it. Anything else is empty rhetoric.”