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<blockquote data-quote="Tristissima" data-source="post: 7514337" data-attributes="member: 6162"><p>Ugh. <em>Snow Crash</em> ~ I mean, I'm still bitter cuz all my friends told me to read it cuz I love ancient Sumer and just, no. Just, no. <em>Diamond Age, Or a Young Lady's Illustrated Primer</em>, on the other hand ~ THAT I would 186% be down to watch obsessively. I will say, considering Neal's famous skills at ending his novels, the episodic TV series format might really work for his storytelling, mebbe better than the prose novel.</p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p>I will say, as concerns IRL opinions, I have some concerns about <em>Foundation Trilogy</em>'s themes and how they would interact with the current sociopolitical landscape of the US. I found a good chunk of the series technocratic and elitist in a way that I've become sensitized to as Silicon Valley girl, born and raised. I could see the origins of what seemed a very dehumanizing, caste-based, unassailable/unquestionable, hierarchical/power-over government model that had been argued by some of my more engineering-minded friends in Asimov's world creation.</p><p></p><p>In the current climate, with so many of those friends (who are liberals, progressives, and libertarians) feeling free to throw around ableist and sanist slurs in description of Trump, as they did back in G-Dub's day, li'l ol' crazy anarchist me worries about throwing narrative energy into an idea like "psychohistory" and Hari Seldon's almost-Nietzschean ability to predict and (vaguely) determine future events by means of his intellect and reason.</p><p></p><p>I may not have communicated well ~ my apologies if my point wasn't clear. In addition, I have tried to leave some things out of this post to prevent flames. I am hoping that we can dig into the themes of the books (or not, if no one else is interested ~ is OK, too) and their reception in US culture without getting into complaining about each other's points of view...</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Tristissima, post: 7514337, member: 6162"] Ugh. [I]Snow Crash[/I] ~ I mean, I'm still bitter cuz all my friends told me to read it cuz I love ancient Sumer and just, no. Just, no. [I]Diamond Age, Or a Young Lady's Illustrated Primer[/I], on the other hand ~ THAT I would 186% be down to watch obsessively. I will say, considering Neal's famous skills at ending his novels, the episodic TV series format might really work for his storytelling, mebbe better than the prose novel. I will say, as concerns IRL opinions, I have some concerns about [I]Foundation Trilogy[/I]'s themes and how they would interact with the current sociopolitical landscape of the US. I found a good chunk of the series technocratic and elitist in a way that I've become sensitized to as Silicon Valley girl, born and raised. I could see the origins of what seemed a very dehumanizing, caste-based, unassailable/unquestionable, hierarchical/power-over government model that had been argued by some of my more engineering-minded friends in Asimov's world creation. In the current climate, with so many of those friends (who are liberals, progressives, and libertarians) feeling free to throw around ableist and sanist slurs in description of Trump, as they did back in G-Dub's day, li'l ol' crazy anarchist me worries about throwing narrative energy into an idea like "psychohistory" and Hari Seldon's almost-Nietzschean ability to predict and (vaguely) determine future events by means of his intellect and reason. I may not have communicated well ~ my apologies if my point wasn't clear. In addition, I have tried to leave some things out of this post to prevent flames. I am hoping that we can dig into the themes of the books (or not, if no one else is interested ~ is OK, too) and their reception in US culture without getting into complaining about each other's points of view... [/QUOTE]
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