Last EVER LJ post
Warren Ellis Is A Charlatan
It's not his fault - You made him the 'Internet Jesus'
But Warren Ellis is not the Messiah
He's not even a prophet
(If you haven't figured out yet that all fiction ... especially science fiction ... is out of date before you read it ... Then do us all a favour and stop reading anything ... ever)
But leave the poor fucker alone - Have you any idea what it must feel like to be lauded as a prophet, when you know, yourself, that you're immeasurably behind the times?
Appreciate what he has to say about stuff and the fact that he's drawing people's attention to it ... But leave it at that
Because it really isn't avant garde at all
Let's face it, even I was predicting what he writes about ten years before he did - And, in that day and age, it might as well have been twenty years
He just says it five years after it's already happened! - In this day and age, twenty (or two, depending on how clued in you are)
And you all lap it up
Give the guy a break! ... He's not Spider Jerusalsem, but some poor hack trying to make a living and support his family - It's not his fault you're all clueless ... But he's not a visionary either
You wanna know what the Future looks like? ... Then take a look at the difference between ten years ago and now - Multiply the timescale by five ... Foreshorten the timescale by five to account for acceleration ... Multiply the timescale by five, to account for the fact that the World is that slow ... Then divide by ten, to account for the fact that you haven't got a clue either ... and it all moves faster than you expected whilst moving much slower than you expected at the same time
Warren Ellis is not a charlatan ... But, thanks to you lot, he might as well be - And he deserves better than that!
If you wanna honour him, then stop reading his stuff ... (never mind praising him for it) ... Get off your arses and give him something new to write about ... Something even he didn't see
Don't just read about it ... DO it! ... Make it happen before he, or even I, have thought of it, never mind reported it!
If you have any real respect for the guy then stop reading and start acting - Give him something to report on in the first place, rather than obliging him to rehash twenty-years-out-of-date ideas over and over, in the vain hope that you might ... actually ... finally ... get the fucking message
And if you still don't get what I'm on about, then here's a clue: Check out Acidexia (a.k.a. Haywire) - I guarantee that, by the time you find her, she won't be there any more ... And that's the fucking point!
That's it ... I'm finally ... completely ... utterly ... irrevocably ... done with LJ
The TMi@Xtrapol8ral has finally left the building
FUCK
YOU
ALL