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  • the problem is fear mongering by the likes of Fox

    And that’s how you keep rednecks from red states feeling superior… through outright lying.

    Back in the Cold War days, Albania was the poorest and most undernourished country in all of Europe, yet the population believed they were the richest.
    The method for spreading this type of lie has been adopted and polished by the right-wing propaganda machine.

















  • Perelandra!
    I read Out Of The Silent Planet and Perelandra as a boy, enjoyed them.

    But I couldn’t make it through That Hideous Strength, I put it down baffled and bored one day, and never picked it up again. Now I’m thinking I was too young for it, particularly growing up so far away from the novel’s setting in England.

    The first two novels take place in Mars and Venus, so there’s a sense of adventure. But in That Hideous Strength, the mannerisms and situations and dialogue styles are akin to something like Brideshead Revisited in Oxford and/or Cambridge.

    While a British boy might get the whole thing intuitively, I grew up in Mexico, so had no mental compass of that world at that age. It was all as confusing to me then as God Emperor Of Dune was later.