Rainy Monday
It's Monday and raining here in Chicago. Rain's actually a good thing - I put down mulch yesterday, so a nice soaking will bed it down.
On the Sad Puppy front, Torgersen's gone full-wingnut and invoked the specter of 9/11. Sayth he: I remember in the wake of 9/11 there seemed to be two camps forming. The first camp devoted itself almost entirely ( Read more... )
On the Sad Puppy front, Torgersen's gone full-wingnut and invoked the specter of 9/11. Sayth he: I remember in the wake of 9/11 there seemed to be two camps forming. The first camp devoted itself almost entirely ( Read more... )
http://monsterhunternation.com/2015/04/09/a-response-to-george-r-r-martin-from-the-author-who-started-sad-puppies/
You might find this interesting… If you bother to read it.
I encountered an article by an extreme-right neo-Zealot acquaintance of mine whom I've called Tweedledee to his (online) face, because the difference between his posts and the Social Justice Warriors is sometimes hard to discern straight off:
> Some people were surprised and others saddened when George R. R. Martin
> came out against the Sad Puppies 3 campaign to restore control of the Hugos
> to the fans, and expressed (some) support for the Scalzi cabal which is
> currently trying to control the nominations and voting. I was not
> surprised, though I am still saddened, because George R. R. Martin is a
> great author, the sort who could succeed in the field even if the Haydens
> of Tor opposed him…
Larry Correia says that he is the one who started that notion rolling, that the award “belongs to the fans” and “it's your award,” &c. - but that he was wrong. Yes, he admits it: “Truth is, the Hugo Awards belong to Worldcon. The World Science Fiction Convention.”
What that has come to mean in practice, how adherence to or departure from Leftist goodthink has come to matter far, far more than good writing, in exactly the manner of their far-from-coincidental role model, the Union of Soviet Writers, he speaks to in this article. I urge you to read it.
“Mind is like parachute - only work when open.”
When the United States and sixty-four other countries had the nerve, the gall to OBJECT to the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan and boycott the 1980 Moscow Olympics, the USSR responded by tit-for-tat boycotting the 1984 Los Angeles Olympics and starting their own “Friendship Games.”
According to Wikipedia,
The TASS news agency [stated] that the "arrogant, hegemonic course of the
Washington administration in international relations is at odds with the
noble ideals of the Olympic movement."
That sounds familiar. Hey, what goes around comes around - when do you suppose we'll see an Anti-Hugo Award? [With mutual tit-for-tat excommunication as well, of course.]
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