“Devil Girl from Mars”: Why I Write Science Fiction (1998)

benbreen | 92 points

This page is surprisingly belligerent to modern reader apps even if you navigate past Frame issues. Pocket, Instapaper, Safari, Firefox reader view, none of them can parse this correctly.

If you look past it all and actually read it, you'll find this gem of a passage.

Beware! All too often, we say what we hear others say. We see what we are permitted to see. Much worse, we see what we're told that we see. Repetition and pride are the keys to this. To hear or to see even an obvious lie again and again and again, is to say it, almost by reflex, and then to defend it because we have said it, and to embrace what we've defended. Thus without thought or intent, we make mere echoes of ourselves and we say what we hear others say.

princetman | 5 years ago

Lots of interesting bits in here, and some parts very prescient. The more interesting thoughts to me were near the end: “throw-away workers”, and the last quote on “truth”.

stu_k | 5 years ago