Date: Sun, 2 Sep 2001 10:05:34 +0100
From: Charlie Stross <charlie@antipope.org>
Subject: Re: Herding Extropycats [was Shame on Australia]
On Sat, Sep 01, 2001 at 10:43:17PM -0700, Tim Maroney wrote:
>
> > (On the other hand, the sf community Russell and I have hung
> > around in for the last 20 or 40 years tend to be the Aussie variety, which
> > is less given to `fanboy libertarianism'.)
>
> Glad to hear it's mostly an American problem, or more properly, a USA
> problem. It's not exactly a small problem in the USA SF community, though.
You don't get it in British SF fandom, either. (Libertarianism isn't
any big deal over here; IIRC Ayn Rand never got published in the UK. The
nearest you'll get are some fans who're Tory party activists -- usually
outnumbered by the members of radical left-wing groups.)
HA HA HA HA
Ever heard of Ken MacLeod for instance?
HA HA HA HA
Waldemar
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