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Originally Posted by ApK
He said:
" If we can't even agree on something as fundamental as what is a good thing for the future, why would I want to visit a future he envisions?"
But not it's like he actually knows what sort future the books presents. That's pretty much closed-mindedness by my understanding of the term
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No, it is pretty much logical. Just as you would not expect a staunch communist to write a book praising a capitalistic future, I see no reason to expect someone who strongly favors government enforced artificial scarcity to write anything positive about the type of post-scarcity, post-singularity future I prefer to read about.
I'll put it bluntly-- I do not want to live in the kind of world that he wants to live in. It is one thing if a writer presents a distopia knowing that it is a distopia, but another thing entirely when he presents a distopia thinking that this is just a
swell way for things to end up.
"
Money is a sign of poverty"
-- Ian M. Banks.