The Editor’s Notes
last issue, Number 1,111, was the eleventy-eleventh issue
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Letters to the Editor
from A.X. Perez, James Carter, and Kristophr
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Remarks To The Fifth Annual Convention Of The Mars Society
by L. Neil Smith
There is an old Chinese curse, “May you live in interesting times”. In exactly that sense, it’s been “interesting” to listen to the other speakers at this conference as they try, one after another, each in his own way, to deal with the fact that very few of their fellow human beings seem interested in going for the “carrot” the rest of us desire so passionately, of space exploration, settlement, and development.
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Cultural Hold
by Sarah A. Hoyt
I think part of the problem with “culture” and understandihg “culture” is that we cram a bunch of stuff under that poor word. Like when people say we need to “take back the culture” they mean arts, entertainment, news, the stories, however told and by whatever means, that tell a people what they are; inform each individual what they’re part of, and what role they’re expected to play in society. (Different for everyone, but narrative should play a part in telling us where we can find a role. Roles are important because the human mind compasses millennia, but human life is brief. Part of what is destroying us is that the left has taken away everything humans could with honor consider themselves part of and leave for the future.) The left meanwhile thinks that culture is food, clothing, language and what kind of music you like to listen to, and quaint holiday celebrations. They then proclaim all cultures the same and all subsumed to the great socialist project…
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