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Comment Re:We need positive Sci-Fi. (Score 1) 108

We're not really collective. We're individually political and pursuing one's ends is mature in the rational sense, which beats deluded humanistic dogma every-time. Like the glaring example that is Vulcan religion, it's not logical to call reification-based totalitarian pipe-dreams logic...

Comment Re:"Fan favorites"? (Score 1) 364

Tits and explosions are both visceral. Most were probably watching for that. Pseudo/quasi-intellectuality only counts so far. Consider Michael Bay movies and reality TV.

1. Pretend shallow convolution makes a coherent premise.
2. Blow up shit.
3. Profit.

Syfy officially doesn't even like your kind 'round there anymore.

Comment Re:They always told me I was so smart... (Score 1) 243

Besides which, the social skills to talk to smart people aren't completely independent of the social skills to talk to not-so-smart people, honestly.

Good luck. Explaining, that "geek culture" required socialization to be a culture, thus geeks are typically quite social, NEVER sinks in. Might as well explain the old implication that geek chicks didn't exist was never meant to be a statement of fact, just an insult to geek males. He's been normalized and as usual is both proud and angry about it, so he needs a target. Nerd/geek/foo cultures are acceptable (ignoring "geek chic" and other hipster quasi-"cool kid" shit...).

Comment Re:They always told me I was so smart... (Score 1) 243

But pretending to be dumb tends to be increasingly grating the smarter (and generally more knowledgeable) you get. Consider Douglas Adams uncharacteristically seriously chafing at a joke about making an airplane out of the same materials as black boxes. The more you can be aware of at any moment the more you'll have to deal with at about every moment. Pseudo-"rapport" building chatter will just make you sad and angry about the privileging of such LCD bullshit and its hypocritically pretentious adherents. Psychological itches and pains. Everywhere. All the time. Till you die.

Comment Re:They always told me I was so smart... (Score 2) 243

If you don't, you're literally psychotic. Reality isn't up for voting and doesn't reflect mob sentiment. Anyone who believes otherwise has no grasp of reality, is certainly mentally defective regardless of social privileges, and is psychologically, philosophically, scientifically, etc. inferior to those that comprehend otherwise.

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