The status of Rolf Nelson’s [http://www.thestarscameback.com/] bibliography is a bit confused right now. His first book, The Stars Came Back [http://www.thestarscameback.com/], was written in a screenplay format. The barest of action and setting descriptions, and a lot of dialogue, but engaging; Partway in you’re hooked and barely noticing the odd structure any more than you’d notice the style of english in Shakespeare. His second book – Back From the Dead [https://www.amazon.com/Back-Dead-Star…
I got sidetracked reading The Heretics of Saint Possenti [https://www.amazon.com/Heretics-St-Possenti-Rolf-Nelson-ebook/dp/B077CVXWVP] – and I’m still not done. No other post right now.…
Why are progressive/SJW checkbox stories sooooo predictable and boring? Sure, they replace actual story with checkboxes, and the “blessed” characters can’t have real failings, just the fake ones you see in job interviews “I sometimes care too much” Barf. Like, totally. Valley-gull speech aside, I’d like to propose that maybe, not only are they limited in what they consider allowable, they can’t evenimagine it. There are a small handful of TED talks that I consider worth paying attention to,…
One of the reasons I left Libertarianism, to the “small L” extent that I ever was, boiled down to one simple fact – it failed the Starship Troopers test. Namely, it assumed angels of men, or a static society of people who, coincidentally, believed in serving the greater society around them to prevent organized incursions by power seekers and nation states. With the caveat that at least they understood that ultimately, there is a point where one’s imperfect scope of knowledge about other people,…
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