May 2, 2018 By J.R. Dunn
Over at PJ Media, Megan Fox (whom I would never have taken for an S.F. fan – too pleasant and too well balanced) informs us that author Jon Del Arroz is filing a lawsuit in response to being banned from WorldCon last year.
WorldCon, for those of you unfamiliar with the world of S.F. fandom, is the science fiction field's annual jamboree, held on Labor Day weekend and encompassing up to ten thousand professionals and fans from all corners of the science fiction and fantasy universe. WorldCon covers all aspects of S.F. media, though the emphasis is on printed S.F. It is held in a different city each year, usually in the U.S. or Canada, and overseas at rare intervals. Science fiction's premier literary award, the Hugo, is presented for the best works of the previous year.
It's long been a cliché that S.F. fandom is an odd subculture, composed largely of tech geeks, superannuated hippies, and bohos of all types. Asperger's is the dominant personality trait, and the politics is leftist – very far to the left, and for far longer than any other American subculture outside the CPUSA itself. (Keep in mind that the founder of modern science fiction, H.G. Wells, was also a founder of the Fabian Society, the U.K.'s dominant leftist organization.) There was an attempt by active communists to take over the field as long ago as 1940, and things have not improved in the ensuing nearly eighty years........To Read More.....
My Take - If definition leads to clarity - and it does - as time goes by it will become clear to everyone the left is great at using our own values against us, and then when they have power and control they exemplify the very things they claim they're against. The left has no moral foundation other than doing and saying whatever it takes to attain power and control, so they can change direction on a dime and condemn the very positions they may have taken in the past and then claim it's the opposition who's responsible for _____________(fill in the blank since any reason that condemns those they oppose will work for the left).
WorldCon, for those of you unfamiliar with the world of S.F. fandom, is the science fiction field's annual jamboree, held on Labor Day weekend and encompassing up to ten thousand professionals and fans from all corners of the science fiction and fantasy universe. WorldCon covers all aspects of S.F. media, though the emphasis is on printed S.F. It is held in a different city each year, usually in the U.S. or Canada, and overseas at rare intervals. Science fiction's premier literary award, the Hugo, is presented for the best works of the previous year.
It's long been a cliché that S.F. fandom is an odd subculture, composed largely of tech geeks, superannuated hippies, and bohos of all types. Asperger's is the dominant personality trait, and the politics is leftist – very far to the left, and for far longer than any other American subculture outside the CPUSA itself. (Keep in mind that the founder of modern science fiction, H.G. Wells, was also a founder of the Fabian Society, the U.K.'s dominant leftist organization.) There was an attempt by active communists to take over the field as long ago as 1940, and things have not improved in the ensuing nearly eighty years........To Read More.....
My Take - If definition leads to clarity - and it does - as time goes by it will become clear to everyone the left is great at using our own values against us, and then when they have power and control they exemplify the very things they claim they're against. The left has no moral foundation other than doing and saying whatever it takes to attain power and control, so they can change direction on a dime and condemn the very positions they may have taken in the past and then claim it's the opposition who's responsible for _____________(fill in the blank since any reason that condemns those they oppose will work for the left).
