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Monday Apr 10, 2006

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One of my favorite, and certainly my favorite in the realm of sci-fi/fantasy, authors, Michael Moorcock, wrote some interesting essays on the hidden conservative nature of most science fiction and "high" fantasy. I spent an hour or so tonight reading them.

One is called "Epic Pooh", and takes writers like Tolkien and C.S. Lewis to task for their reactionary, anti-modern Tory conservativism.

If the Shire is a suburban garden, Sauron and his henchmen are that old bourgeois bugaboo, the Mob - mindless football supporters throwing their beer-bottles over the fence - the worst aspects of modern urban society represented as the whole by a fearful, backward-yearning class for whom "good taste" is synonymous with "restraint" (pastel colours, murmured protest) and "civilized" behaviour means "conventional behaviour in all circumstances".



The other is called "Starship Stormtroopers", and discusses the crypto-fascist, authoritarian, and paternalistic nature of a lot of science fiction.

Next time you pick up a Heinlein book think of the author as looking a bit like General Eisenhower or, if that image isn't immediate enough, some chap in early middleage, good-looking in a slightly soft way, with silver at the temples, a blue tie, a sober three-pieced suit, telling you with a quiet smile that Margaret Thatcher cares for individualism and opportunity above all things, as passionately in her way as you do in yours. And then you might have some idea of what you're actually about to read.



Interesting stuff.

flux:
It's so true.

The genre is, as a whole, fucking disgustingly crotchety.
Apr 10, 2006

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