David Brin
Used to be a science fiction author - and a good one. Now he's just another moonbat:
Demonstrating that history is too weird ever to have been made up, the new 21st Century Neoconservatism has forged a bizarre alliance among several major groups with very little discernable ideological common ground, other than a shared hatred of "liberals." That is, there appears to be very little common ground, until you probe more deeply. What could possibly unite this coalition whose chief components are: 1. A sub-set of aristocrats seeking (with great success) to use government as a free source of new wealth.There's this thing known in science-fiction fandom as the "brain eater", which is presented as the explanation for a formerly great author who suddenly starts writing nothing but drivel.* Well, the brain eater got Brin. * In the case of Robert Heinlein, this was almost literal; in his case it was a stroke that left him with limited blood flow to his brain for years.
2. A sub-set of messianic "Left Behind" Christianity that actively hungers for a final confrontation between Good and Evil, culminating in a stage-drama end of the world predicted in Revelations.
3. A movement of doctrine-focused intellectuals -- many of whom are neither Christians nor aristocrats -- pushing a particularly aggressive version of nationalism with a theoretical, neo-platonic basis and its own fervid sense of non-religious but messianic mission.
Posted by: Pixy Misa at 02:34 AM
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Heinlein had some good conservative impulses, too. I remember being fascinated with the talks about duty in Starship Troopers.
That's a shame about Brin. I loved Uplift War and the rest in that series. . . Bleh.
That's a shame about Brin. I loved Uplift War and the rest in that series. . . Bleh.
Posted by: Discoshaman at November 04, 2004 04:10 AM (LAUjy)
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I loved the first three books in the Uplift series -- but then Brin caught a bad case of PC virus, and the rest were notably crappy.
Posted by: Evil Pundit at November 04, 2004 08:21 PM (ss0/1)
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Too bad. I remember a few years back reading an interview with Orson Scott Card, where he went off on some religious rant tangent, and thinking the same thing, that it was a shame to lose a good writer to a bad brain cell.
Posted by: LeeAnn at November 05, 2004 02:51 AM (vqSdN)
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