Posted on 06/22/2018 8:15:54 AM PDT by Celerity
"By writing black female protagonists into science fiction, and bringing her acute appraisal of real-world power structures to bear on the imaginary worlds she created, Butler became an early pillar of the subgenre and aesthetic known as Afrofuturism. (Kara Walker cites her as an inspiration; and, as Hilton Als has pointed out, Butler is the “dominant artistic force” in Beyoncé’s visual album “Lemonade.”) In the ongoing contest over which dystopian classic is most applicable to our time, Kellyanne Conway made a strong case for George Orwell’s “Nineteen Eighty-Four” when she used the phrase “alternative facts” and sent the novel to the top of Amazon’s best-seller list. Margaret Atwood’s “The Handmaid’s Tale” also experienced a resurgence in sales, and its TV adaptation on Hulu inspired protest costumes. But for sheer peculiar prescience, Butler’s novel and its sequel may be unmatched."
"The Donner Administration has written off science, but a more immediate threat lurks: a violent movement is being whipped up by a new Presidential candidate, Andrew Steele Jarret, a Texas senator and religious zealot who is running on a platform to “make American great again.”
(Excerpt) Read more at octaviabutler.org ...
What makes this different is that Google's little artwork celebrates this second rate sci-fi author. Postmortem, on what was to be her 71st birthday.
What is the significance in that ? Oh wait.. THERE IS NONE.
Another sublime Google exercise in luring people into leftism and communism. As soon as I can figure out a way to get a cell phone without the presence of Google, Apple or Microsoft the happier I'll be.
personally, I like duckduckgo.com.
“personally, I like duckduckgo.com.”
Right there with you....
“afrofuturism...”
Old-ish joke...
‘why aren’t their any muslims on Star Trek?’
‘because it’s the future!’
KYPD
I haven’t used Google search in many years. StartPage works just fine. And doesn’t track your searches.
https://startpage.com/do/metasearch.pl
“Second rate” is a big strong—her novels are good imho, but Google’s attempt to idolize her is way over the top for sure.
It is a good thing they haven’t discovered Steven Barnes. (Lion’s Blood, Zulu Heart) :-)
(Those sci-fi novels are about blood-thirsty blacks slaughtering white people—maybe a bit too violent for the kumbaya lefty crowd.)
Octavia Butler was not 2nd rate. For her time, she was a star. Maybe she needed some marketing help from Ellison et al and sure, a MacArthur grant never hurts when it comes to supporting a writing career, but I read her when she first published and several of her series over again, a few within the past few years. She could write clearly. She understood that each sentence drives the plot. She drew on people she knew for characters, but they aren’t all black and none are stereotypes of that time. She had some ongoing health issues. Socially, she was withdrawn. Probably gay...I don’t know for sure. But she could write and her science fiction ideas were intriguing.
Goog is evil....but that’s nothing to do with Butler.
Duckduckgo works well too. If you use it on your android phone, “Brave” instead of Chrome you’ll see that as a search option and the two work well together.
Untested on iphone.
But the whole android phone is a google thing. And after working in the platform for years I could tell you some evil, evil stuff about these phones.
Microsoft supports population control. Apple uses slave labor (Well, they all do) and Google has declared me an enemy.
StartPage is TERRIFIC!!!!!!
Who owns duckduckgo? Who runs it?
We did a little search comparison here on FR after the topic came up about Google’s anti-eurocentric search results and we found that duckduckgo was giving very very similar search results.
Does anyone go to school any more, to learn English, grammar and clarity of the written word?
The very first sentence in the poster comment (reply 1) should be... Google is or is not doing blah blah blah...
I hope this isn't going to be another of those days at FR.
Off to try to make sense today of a truly eff'd up and dystopian culture in the criminal, inept kakistocracy that is Calipornia..
Probably like Dogpile.com. It may just pull from Google.
I read several of her novels. Some were reasonably well written.
I recall her worst, which she allowed to be published once, and then refused that it ever be published again, because it was so bad.
She seems to have hated western civilization with a passion, and came up with ways to destroy it by super powered characters and extraterrestrial diseases.
Google’s daily virtue signaling.
I use duckduckgo and I’ve been meaning to research other alternatives, but my main gripe with google isn’t their politics, which is pretty craptastic on it’s own, nor even their egregious record on personal privacy, but how they augment search relevance based on who buys ads.
I understand that this is their business model and most people probably think it’s fair, but I think that when you have a market stranglehold on internet searches and your not going to get busted for being a monopoly, then you had better at least provide a fair, unbiased service. I never had any problem back in the days when google simply places paid advertiser’s ads above the search results. That was fair. I feel that it’s corrupt to alter search result’s relevance based on monitization without showing the public how the results are being affected.
"...Lion's Blood...presents an alternate world where an Islamic Africa is the center of technological progress and learning while Europe remains largely tribal and backward..."
So all it is is Kill White People P0rn for those who get off on killing white people, and can read. These are folks who would murder my children because of the color of their skin.
I say bring on the Civil War now, while we still stand a chance of winning.
Same here.
Google has 93% of the search market on phones and over 90% overall. Anyone who thinks a little boycott is going to change anything is living in fantasy land.
Use what you want, I’ll use what I want. Freedom of choice.
They do this all the time.
Yet they ‘commemorated’ Memorial Day with a tiny, unnoticeable, almost not even there, American flag at the very bottom of the page.
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