But, I also have to say that for me personally it is Willard's long inhabitation of a bubble of moneyed hyper-privilege that yields that abiding strange stiff inhumanity of his. Think of Glinda the Good Witch descending on the Emerald City, bathed in pastels, smiling vapidly like an anti-depressant commercial, clearly strung tight as a banjo string. Watching Romney interact with average Hu-mons in group settings is like observing a social variation of the uncanny valley. I am reminded of William Gibson's insight expressed in the gooseflesh inducing phrase from Count Zero:
And, for an instant, she stared directly into those soft blue eyes and knew, with an instinctive mammalian certainty, that the exceedingly rich were no longer even remotely human.
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> Watching Romney interact with average Hu-mons in group settings is
> like observing a social variation of the uncanny valley. I am reminded
> of the William Gibson's Count Zero insight expressed in the gooseflesh
> inducing phrase. . .
Golly!
What, too much? wheeee!
> What, too much?
Au contraire! South Park and William Gibson just hit the spot.
;->
> I freely admit as a crusty atheist that I find all the various UFO cults
> rather weird, Trekkers, Raelians, Scientologists, Mormons, Roman Catholics
> and so on.
Here's one I can believe in:
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2012/01/05/file_sharing_sweden_kopimism_religion/
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Sweden has acknowledged that online file-sharing can be deemed
a religion. . .
The Church of Kopimism was apparently registered by the Swedish
governmental agency Kammarkollegiet. . ..
According to a statement from the Kopimists themselves, the pro-piracy
outfit's church was recognised as a religious org "just before Christmas". . .
All of the kopimi are apparently grateful that Sweden has become
the first country to recognise that file-sharing is in fact a religion.
Some might draw comparisons with the controversial Church of Scientology,
which is recognised principally in the US as a religion, and also with Jediism,
which is yet to be decreed as a faith by anyone on planet Earth.
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There seems to be more of a point to this than, e.g.,
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kibology
I wonder how this could play out in an RIAA or MPAA
lawsuit in a Swedish court.
;->
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