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CWatkinsNash · 06-12-2011, 03:06 PM

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Originally Posted by ardeegee

Doesn't surprise me. For most of religion, philosophy, and "spirituality", Surgeon's Law is wildly optimistic.

You mean Sturgeon? As in "pretty much everything is crap"? Yup.

HarryT · 06-12-2011, 03:20 PM

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Originally Posted by CWatkinsNash

You mean Sturgeon? As in "pretty much everything is crap"? Yup.

It's actually "90% of everything is crap".

jgaiser · 06-12-2011, 07:34 PM

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Originally Posted by ardeegee

Doesn't surprise me. For most of religion, philosophy, and "spirituality", Surgeon's Law is wildly optimistic.

Sturgeon's Law, or as originally named "Sturgeon's Revelation"

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The first written reference to the adage appears in the March 1958 issue of Venture, where Sturgeon wrote:

I repeat Sturgeon’s Revelation, which was wrung out of me after twenty years of wearying defense of science fiction against attacks of people who used the worst examples of the field for ammunition, and whose conclusion was that ninety percent of SF is crud.[1]

Using the same standards that categorize 90% of science fiction as trash, crud, or crap, it can be argued that 90% of film, literature, consumer goods, etc. are crap. In other words, the claim (or fact) that 90% of science fiction is crap is ultimately uninformative, because science fiction conforms to the same trends of quality as all other artforms.

elcreative · 06-12-2011, 07:50 PM

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Namekuseijin · 06-12-2011, 08:08 PM

People read for leisure. That monk was too busy refraining from pleasure to realize it.

Private reading and all new-fangled content to be read grew out of the middle class developed during Industrial Revolution: there was some money left to be used for books, paintings and music. Before that, people either read short bursts of text from religious books like the Bible in a communal ritual, or didn't read at all. There was mostly nothing else to read anyway and in any case people weren't alphabetized either. Oral narration ruled as favored past-time during beer time.

I'm sick of "social networking", leave me alone with my ebooks, will ya?

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Namekuseijin affordable chipmunk Posts: 1,290 Karma: 9863855 Join Date: Feb 2011 Location: Brazil Device: Sony XPeria ZL, Kindle Paperwhite	People read for leisure. That monk was too busy refraining from pleasure to realize it. Private reading and all new-fangled content to be read grew out of the middle class developed during Industrial Revolution: there was some money left to be used for books, paintings and music. Before that, people either read short bursts of text from religious books like the Bible in a communal ritual, or didn't read at all. There was mostly nothing else to read anyway and in any case people weren't alphabetized either. Oral narration ruled as favored past-time during beer time. I'm sick of "social networking", leave me alone with my ebooks, will ya?