Re: _2001_: Optimistic or pessimistic, en fin?

From: Jim Fehlinger (fehlinger@home.com)
Date: Fri Feb 23 2001 - 11:50:50 MST


Brent Allsop wrote:

> Helloooo!!!! Is anyone out there listining!!! There is still
> lots of evil down here! We're doing all we can, spending our lives
> trying to find a cure for hunger, cancer, aging, suffering... hoping
> to be able to save our loved ones before they suffer more and die!!!!
> Helloooo!! In case your to dumb to figure out the obvious, we could
> use some help with all this! Screw your "prime directives", your
> irrational excuses for hiding and not coming down to help. Damn your
> "theodicies" that attempt to twist and justify your omnipotent
> existence while you tolerate all this evil and suffering!

Check out Iain M. Banks' "The State of the Art", reprinted in the
collection _The State of the Art_, Orbit Books, 1991.

http://www.orbitbooks.co.uk/bd.cgi/orbit/DDW?K=179870077774800&M=2&W=ctitle+PH+WORDS+%27State%27%26%27Art%27+OR+cauthor+PH+WORDS+%27Iain%27%26%27M.%27%26%27Banks%27&TAG=&CID

Diziet Sma agreed with you when the Culture came calling in 1977;
unfortunately, her GCU did not :->

Jim F.



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