Comment Re:The Ring is Authoritarianism (Score 1) 578
Actually most fairy tales are metaphors for struggles. Yes some are sugar coated now but in the past they were not. The brothers Grimm started the sachrinization of them.
As to the Good Bad no inbetween. I live in that grey world all the time. Sometime you just want to get away. That is why we read fantasy and romance and yes Mr Brin even Science Fiction.
All science fiction is escapist literature. It is as real as any fantasy it takes us to a place where the normal world doesn't apply in one way or another.
To the point that Romaticism and the LOTR and most Fantasy itself focuses on the heroic individual over the common man is still going on. Wars are not won by the sole heroic individual this is true but the news tends to focus on the sole person or type of person. How much trying to save people or sorting through rubble it Guiliani do? How much attention was put on him for his role? Different situation same perspective. Even in squad based war dramas there is one or two people that stick out that the story follows. Even though all are heroes STORIES focus on one or two.
As to not having Kings etc etc etc. What about our Celebrity Worship? How about the political families that seem to hang on and on. How many people have been mayor in CHicago in the last 50 years that wasn't named Daly? Hmm lets see .... Bush and Shrub... and as has been stated before Kennedy?
I will let you go back to your normal posts.
As to the Good Bad no inbetween. I live in that grey world all the time. Sometime you just want to get away. That is why we read fantasy and romance and yes Mr Brin even Science Fiction.
All science fiction is escapist literature. It is as real as any fantasy it takes us to a place where the normal world doesn't apply in one way or another.
To the point that Romaticism and the LOTR and most Fantasy itself focuses on the heroic individual over the common man is still going on. Wars are not won by the sole heroic individual this is true but the news tends to focus on the sole person or type of person. How much trying to save people or sorting through rubble it Guiliani do? How much attention was put on him for his role? Different situation same perspective. Even in squad based war dramas there is one or two people that stick out that the story follows. Even though all are heroes STORIES focus on one or two.
As to not having Kings etc etc etc. What about our Celebrity Worship? How about the political families that seem to hang on and on. How many people have been mayor in CHicago in the last 50 years that wasn't named Daly? Hmm lets see
I will let you go back to your normal posts.
