Another thing I don't like about this Brin guy
His Matrix article sounds exactly the fucking same as his Star Wars article and his Lord of the Rings article and his rather self-congratulatory the-movie-bombed-but-none-of-that-was-my-fault-read-my-book anyway article. He *can't talk about anything else*. It's *all* democracy and the Enlightenment and deconstructing the Campbellian Monomyth and bla bla bla. This even creeps into his stories. At last count of the stuff of his I've read, approximately 3/5 of everything has to be about why democratic egalitarianism is better than hero-worship. I'm not reading into it -- the story will have a long part where the characters actually *say this* explicitly and make a big goddamn deal out of it.
*sigh* Also he uses lots of exclamation points and really short sentences and is incapable of saying anything about movies other than "They're progressive" or "They're reactionary" and whether he liked the special effects.
*double sigh* In short he's everything I'm trying not to turn into. Part of my angry insistence on trying to avoid being politically pegged as anything, and talking about a whole bunch of random shit, and continually undermining my own attempts to be taken seriously, is to avoid having a website like David Brin's.
*sigh* Also he uses lots of exclamation points and really short sentences and is incapable of saying anything about movies other than "They're progressive" or "They're reactionary" and whether he liked the special effects.
*double sigh* In short he's everything I'm trying not to turn into. Part of my angry insistence on trying to avoid being politically pegged as anything, and talking about a whole bunch of random shit, and continually undermining my own attempts to be taken seriously, is to avoid having a website like David Brin's.