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I know this is a little outside the normal scope of this community. However, I think it’s undeniable that a contributing factor to the ideas and behavior of contemporary tech oligarchs is their love of older sci-fi and fantasy literature. Seeing the authoritarian and sometimes even straightforwardly fascist ideals hidden in those works can be helpful in understanding how these people think.

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[–] Clockwork@slrpnk.net 4 points 1 week ago

It took me a while to read it because it's written in a style I'm not used to, and it felt very rambling and messy. Despite that, I liked his rants against Heinlein, Lovecraft and Star Wars, and it conveyed quite a great point on what science fiction should be about.