No, modern sci-fi evolved over time like all the other complex stuff tends to.

Modern sci-fi is created by every fellow with a strange idea. Who thinks maybe I could get my idea across better if I framed it as a narrative and put it in scientific terms. because science is such a lovely language for talking about strange ideas.

Yes, like I said, fetishwear. Nonfunctional costumery

But you don’t need spaceships and aliens to do that. It’s just fetishwear at that point.

In real scifi it isn’t fetishwear. It actually serves a purpose.

Greg Egan, Iain Banks and Sam Hughes are good stuff, if you haven’t.

Also, there’s this amazing new genre, “LitRpg”. Basically fantasy where an rpg type videogame became real.

Most of it is the usual dreck but some of it goes hard sf, delving into the existential stuff.

A couple of the rationalists have even taken a swing.

Try

Mother of Learning

Death after death

Friendship is optimal

So ya, real development is still alive.

No, that’s just your damn limited, dominance games obsessed perspective talking.

My point is actually the quality and appreciation of modern science fiction.

Oh zing!

See, it’s always an argument over value with you people.

So it’s always about who gets the credit. Who gets valued and who doesn’t. Who wins and who loses. That eternal muck of monkey dominance battles.

This bs dominates the common mind utterly. There’s no room for art there. It’s invisible.

It’s always an argument over value with you people.

I don’t refer to mary shelly. I do not distinguish her as the “inventor” of science fiction either. Rendering strange ideas in terms of esoteric disciplines for the metaphorical augmentation or whatever is as old as humanity.

I like scifi. I like to explore the strange and push past the walls of reality. I like dangerous visions. Big ideas.

But interpersonal drama, identity-stroking and, yes, politics. It’s just weak and boring. It’s small. Damn small.

Do you see the difference?

Sometimes startrek goes big. Sometimes it doesn’t.

Nazis. Take away the snappy logo, uniforms and motivational speeches. What have you got?

A crew of adventurous billionaires and their million pawns.

I like wooden wind chimes. I prefer them over the metal ones. Nicer sound. Hard to find a wood that will suffer getting clonked all day tho. Considering pvc

Or maybe it’s the obvious. Billionaires. Princes. Oligarchs.

Maybe all digital content just shouldn’t be trusted. It’s like some kind of demon-realm or something. Navigable by the wise but for common fools like you and I, perilous. Full of illusion.

Calvin is a notorious flat-earther and documented cat botherer.

Your eww is cheap. All it takes is a word from an anonymous person to buy it.

Beauty rules.

Is it better (according to the present popular opinion) to use a derogatory term (goy) or to use what the term means (a dirty non-jew)?

The billionaires with their hand up Trump’s ass are clearly more evil than the billionaires with their hand up Biden’s ass.

Lots of stuff should be tagged but isn’t.

Bad faith arguments. Rhetoric. Information gotten from dubious sources. Metaphors that might be taken literally… Lots of stuff.

Yes, tags would be a great addition to common language. I’d put them right up there with emojis

We also pretend it’s real because that’s simpler that treating it as a useful fantasy or whatever.

That’s a danger of too much pretending.