tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5956838.post7342848978956209089..comments2023-11-22T01:14:54.298-08:00Comments on amor mundi: Death, Diarrhea, and DingbatsDale Carricohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02811055279887722298noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5956838.post-7099941277102724842011-08-23T15:15:37.557-07:002011-08-23T15:15:37.557-07:00Very well put, I think that's one of the best ...Very well put, I think that's one of the best and most accesible thing you've written on the subject.jollyspaniardhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10999141103840765243noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5956838.post-66680201971069202662011-08-21T12:50:17.082-07:002011-08-21T12:50:17.082-07:00GP responded on his blog -- follow the link above ...GP responded on his blog -- follow the link above for the play by play -- but this was my answer to him:<br /><br /><b>You may retreat into "tolerate my culture" when exposed as a crank -- but when the pressure is off you guys go right back to peddling pseudo-science and pretending to be policy wonks. I'm a pluralist, but I also have standards. Facing facts isn't the declaration that all facts are beautiful, let alone "holy." Death denialism may get you through the night, and I am quite content to leave you to it, it's no business of mine, but I do have an opinion about that strategy and about advocacy of that strategy, and offering my judgment to the hearing of a judging public is also part of "letting a bazillion flowers bloom." Denialism is not healthy for the denialist, and it enables authoritarian and reactionary sociocultural formations. In my view futurology is pseudo-science usually masquerading championing science, and it is reactionary politics and policy often masquerading as progressivism -- and, by the way, as a creative sub(cult)ural "movement," transhumanism yields work that in my judgment so far has been almost uniformly third-rate, derivative, and self-indulgent, little better than pedestrian soft-porn commercialism. I also know a lot of science fiction fans, I'm one myself, and I gotta say you guys scrape the bottom of the barrel, you don't hold a candle to the io9 or boing boing crowds let alone the really subversive salons out there. I daresay many of you could do much more interesting work, artistically, politically, personally if you got out of the futurological gravity well you're stuck in, but I know I'm talking to a brick wall on that score. Good luck to you.</b>Dale Carricohttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02811055279887722298noreply@blogger.com