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Having read Snow Crash... I'm getting used to appreciate Neal Stephensons rather heavy handed (if only at first glance) use of Sci-Fi tropes as very dry pragmat
by skore 13y ago
Having read Snow Crash... I'm getting used to appreciate Neal Stephensons rather heavy handed (if only at first glance) use of Sci-Fi tropes as very dry pragmatism.
Yes, this is feudalism, plain and simple. They're simply abusing basic democratic institutions to obfuscate the fact.
- satori99 13y ago“This is America. People do whatever the fuck they feel like doing, you got a problem with that? Because they have a right to. And because they have guns and no one can fucking stop them.” ― Neal Stephenson, Snow Crash
- skore 13y ago"It's like, if you — people of a certain age — would make some effort to just stay in touch with sort of basic, modern-day events, then your kids wouldn't have to take these drastic measures."
- pdkl95 13y agoIt's worth observing that Feudalism is not the worst way of running a society. It can be relatively hands-off at times, and is certainly far better than the various forms of totalitarianism. Still not worth losing our Constitutional Republic over.