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Friday, December 21, 2012

Nothing Can Dim the Faith of the Very Serious White Guys of "The Future" in the Coming Schlongularity

Although Cory Doctorow (and now, too, Charlie Stross) captured some of the surreal hilarity of the pseudo-scientific futurological boosters of the so-called Singularitary by notoriously re-naming it "The Rapture of the Nerds," the ever fabulous Athena Andreadis has managed also to capture some of the ugly politics that gurgle just beneath the surface (when it isn't just in plain view, that is) of that faith-based techno-transcendentalism, and with comparable hilarity and pith, in characterizing the Singularity as: "When being richwhitemale will be even more awesome." I've said it before, I'll say it again, it would seem that The Futurists have seen The Future... and it is a white penis! Although I have dilated on these pernicious political associations endlessly elsewhere, today, I have just one thing to say: Schlongularity.

4 comments:

Athena Andreadis said...

To give credit where it's due, that quote is my variation of a sentence in a Sad Children cartoon:

http://grinding.be/2008/11/17/have-i-told-you-about-how-nerds-destroy-the-world-no-joke/

Dale Carrico said...

I fear the credit, and the shame, of "schlongularity," tho', remains all too typically with me...

Barkeron said...

Not that Mr. threedee printing and gene hacks and Mr. "Why should we care about Earth life? We're living in the golden age of exoplanets, baby!" have stopped being Transcientologists, they just swam to other islands of the archipelago.

jimf said...

> The Futurists have seen The Future... and it is a white penis!

It's blue, I tell you! Or. . .
maybe purple.