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Re: A Learning Experience

There is a reasonably reliable rumor Disney is threatening to reboot Firefly on Disney+. Seeing the claims that Disney has become Wokeness central, this could get interesting.

Albert Perez
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Re: A Learning Experience

I agree that there are exceptions, such as the Captain America movies. I can name a few more, which I plan to do in future articles.

Sean Gangol
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I’m looking forward to your articles, Sean. — Editor

Why Did Ayn Rand Liken Ecologists to Vultures?

This is what she thinks of the people responsible for $6 a gallon heating oil!

Jeff Fullerton
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Back when I was in high school, during the late Pliocene, ecology was a respected observational science that dealt with the relationships between living things. So I think this discussion is more about environmental extremists. And vultures, unlike environmental extremists, have a useful place in the ecology. — Editor

Starting at the Beginning Again

I recently decided to start at the beginning again and read The Probability Broach. I’d forgotten how much fun it is, and I’ve also gotten a new perspective on it. I am amazed, reading so far just the first few chapters, how prescient Neil was. That his description of Win’s society, especially in the intros, seems so much like the unfortunate situation we find ourselves in right now is far too uncanny to be comfortable. As a Canadian, I especially identified with his description to Ed of Canada as a “people’s republic”. Little Justin is doing his absolute best to complete the job his father had started back by ’79, and I’m wondering if we’ll get an election in time for Pierre Poilievre’s actual conservatives to reverse things. I guess Neil was wrong about the Federal Security Police – although he was almost right, given this Ministry of Misinformation stuff Xiden was trying to pull – or the “Patents Registration Tactical Arm”, or “FCC gunships” but I see the FBI is more than up to those jobs on their own. President Jackson clearly had no more regard for the Constitution than Billy-Bob Clinton, George III Bush, Barry O’Bomber, or now Comrade Xiden, so perhaps we all needed to have paid better attention.

Oh, well: I wish you lot all the best in your mid-term elections next Tuesday. Maybe something can get started out of that.

Rob Gillespie
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(The women of this country learned long ago that those without swords can still die upon them)
— Eowyn of Rohan

When some people has to obey other people’s orders, equality’s out of the question.
— Dick Deadeye

See Ron Paul on Will the Midterms Change Anything? elsewhere in this issue. — Editor.