From: Spudboy100@aol.com
Date: Sun Sep 02 2001 - 10:39:46 MDT
Hello charlie@antipope.org (Charlie Stross),
In reference to your comment:
è You don't get it in British SF fandom, either.
è (Libertarianism isn't any big deal over here; IIRC Ayn
è Rand never got published in the UK. The nearest you'll
è get are some fans who're Tory party activists -- usually
è outnumbered by the members of radical left-wing
è groups.)
Which means that in 10 years some UK intellectual will read Rand for the
first time (just to be different) and claim it for his/her own, as if Rand
was invented for the UK.
"just Our Marilyn Monroe" ~so goes the Sir Elton John Tune
>I think that's only part of the picture. The real question is *why* are
>the technology buffs more right-wing? Is this some sort of political
>inheritance from the Technocrat party of the 1920's and 1930's? (Weird
>people, BTW!)
> -- Charlie
Technology requires linear thinking, whereas communism merely requires people
skills. "The purpose of terrorism is to terrorize" ~V.I. Lenin
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