When did it happen? They were brilliant geeks, then all that flashy hardware and Operation Mockingbird funded CGI made their minds incapable of reading anything more speculative than a computer generated list of appropriately voiced patriotic sound bites.
Hmmm. Science fiction. Or Speculative Fiction as it is now called.
The mainstream flash gordon dumbing down grew. The grit and bite of speculation and the tales of the lone maverick achieving against all odds replaced with yes sir! yes sir!
Fuck. What happened?
The X-Files geeks suddenly got bored because there was nothing to watch except 7 of 9's fucking tits for 10 years, so they just lapped up every military sci fi that was slopped into their institutional food trays. Moral dilemmas, sacrifices for honor or authority, just fucking blow more shit up and lets holler...
OH GAWD. GAWD MADE THE CYLONS TOO!
oh fuck that is shitty. Lame. SO FUCKING LAME!!!!!
Creationist monotheist militarism wrapped in amygdala squishing action sequences.
Fucking shitty crap. Rules of acquisition and chains of command
mental chains.
The geeks flock in herds to their conventions clutching photos of the agents of their descent into stupidity, drooling for signatures and sticking ten dollars at a time into the pockets of stars and crews that actually despise them.
I read every Heinlen before I was 14, almost every asimov, clarke, bradbury, herbert, varley, bear...
Fuck your endless reboots of your previous successes
Fuck them all to hell.
So many stories, and the actual writers are getting nothing
Dick was broke his whole life until the near end, and so are they all
but the military has geek power filling its bank accounts now
suckers
We should have snow crash and neuromancer, foundations and childhood's end,
instead we have commando in space
and just more of the fucking same
again
and again.
What next?
Lets see
Maybe
Dexter in Space?
Or how about Dexter as a sci fi geek.
He could uncover the truth about all the plastic heros
then wrap them in celluloid and whack them with sharpened DVD pieces.
Fuck.
I'm going to go read a fucking book.
