Posted on 04/13/2007 7:18:36 AM PDT by Tolik
Perhaps Mitt could make OSC Secretary of State. :)
"When life becomes an extended picnic, with nothing of importance to do, ideas of greatness become an irritant. Such is the nature of the Europe syndrome." -- Charles Murray
I sent him an email telling him how much I appreciate his worldview and writing.
"The whole leftist philosophy is about rejecting authority," said Reuben bitterly. "And replacing it with an even more rigid list of forbidden ideas. The only difference is that the Progressive thought police don't wear uniforms." (p. 194)
It is part of human nature to regard as sane those people who share the worldview of the majority of society. Somehow, though, we have managed to divide ourselves into two different, mutually exclusive sanities. (p. 342)
Card is the only major s.f. novelist who can create nearly believable Christian characters. As a Calvinist, I regard it as a standing reproach that God had to raise up this Latter Day Saint to glorify the name of Jesus in that usually hostile genre. Where are our novelists? That's right -- creating the ultimate in "escapist trash" literature, the "Left Below" series. Folks, I think we can do better -- and I'm willing to follow a Mormon's lead in this case.
This will continue to happen until Republicans refuse to bend over for it.
I’m going out to buy the book today.
Thanks
My name is Slings and Arrows, and I am a dunderhead.
I rather think that a Calvinist or any covenant Christian would not call the “Left Behind” books a product of “our” novelists.....btw I agree that the books are terrible.
I still have to finish the ‘Ender’ series. I love it
“Orson... You continue to brilliantly outline precisely why it’s so maddeningly illogical to remain a Democrat... What are you waiting for? An invitation?”
He doesn’t do it because he sees the Republican Party as the party of incomprehensibly stupid, shortsighted and greedy economic policies. He agrees with FDR, and sees the Republican economic agenda to try and dismantle Social Security, ship every last job to China because it’s so cheap, et al, as idiocy incarnate. And he is right.
He won’t become a Republican until the Republicans adopt rational economic views. But bad economics is THE CORE of the Republican Party. It was to preserve the domestic economic agenda, after all, that Bush eschewed going to Congress after 9/11 to get a full outright Declaration of War. THAT would have preserved national unity, but at the cost of a massive mobilization, and the tax hikes that would have entailed. The GOP core was ready to gamble on winning the war on a shoestring rather than back away from their economic agenda. The GOP economic agenda, and not the war, was always the President’s team’s priority.
Which is why we are losing the war. We didn’t commit to it at the start by actually declaring it. We didn’t commit the necessary resources to it. We didn’t, therefore, either maintain national unity OR win convincingly on the battlefield. Instead, unity is gone and the lack of battlefield success will force a withdrawal. The battle Bush WON was to keep the foolish tax cuts, the open trade door to China, and the open border for cheap exploitable labor.
That’s why folks like Card do not leave the corrupt and weak Democrats for the Republicans: because Democrats are a whole lot smarter than Republicans when it comes to managing the national economy and understanding what really makes sense for America in that regard.
Hmmmm.....who could he possibly be referring to?
Bookmarked
Yes, I think Orson Scott Card is a good SF novelist because he knows the difference between right and wrong, honor and dishonor, and that is necessary to write a novel that rises beyond being merely fun or clever.
I find that some of his series novels tend to go downhill as the series progresses. He is never a bad novelist, but some are better than others.
The best:
Ender’s Game
Wyrms
Seventh Son
While none of the novels in the Ender’s Shadow series ever quite comes up to Ender’s Game, the series as a whole is actually better than the first series, IMHO.
Wyrms isn’t as well known as Ender’s Game, but I heartily recommend it as possibly the best of all his novels.
And while the Alvin Maker series also goes down hill, I really like SEventh Son, the first novel.
My name is JRios and I, too, am a dunderhead...humbled that an all-powerful God would have such mercy on me.
Wow, just wow!
Does the author remain in the RAT Party? After this, he will lose his party card for sure. Pelosi will send her goons soon.
Hi sionnsar!
Is this where the DA (dunderhead's anonymous) meeting is?
Thought you might like to read this.
Orson Scott Card is a great writer and one my personal favorites.
“Dunderheads Anonymous” — yup!
My name is sionnsar and I am a dunderhead.
My name is Slings and Arrows, and I am a dunderhead.
My name is StarCMC and I am a dunderhead, too.
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