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полезный идиот
"Third, the most remarkable technology - their Avatar link-up - was shown to be naturally duplicated by nature (in Pandora). Most technology today consists of lessons or examples of things we have seen done in nature (photosynthesis anyone?)."
Q. What do you think of Science Fiction?
A. It's a legitimate form of literature, but its seldom good. Science fiction used to be original and sometimes interesting. Today it's junk. I dislike it because it's too freewheeling. You can invent anything you wish and say that's the science of the future. They go too far that way.
Ayn Rand Answers, p 222.
"In the end, the villains in the movie ARE BAD, and the heroes in the movie ARE GOOD AND BRAVE."
Well that's a shock.
But is the badness of the villains realistic, because that's the way corporations and U.S. Marines are? Or is their badness an arbitrary construct the nature of which one must evade to accept? Is the goodness of the heroes realistic, because that is how we expect stone-age mother-goddess worshipping tribesman to be? Or is that an arbitrary construct the nature of which one must swallow blindly to accept?
 In case you don't know the true nature of mother-goddess worshipping tribesman, think of the reputation of Hera. Think of the reputation of Kali. Think of the pre-Indo-European goddess-worshipping peoples of Europe and the near east. Until the horsemen came out of the Russian steppe those cultures were agricultural police-states ruled by witches. They used poison as a tool of state and they hobbled men at birth or before using them at stud. Their goddesses survive in myth today. We call them Lilith, Circe, Tiamat, hags, harpies, medusae, All the chthonian combination snake-woman-vulture monsters of classic mythology are what remains in our culture of theirs.
 All of which information you may find it even easier to evade because from our Universities, to our Sit-Coms, to the Primate of the Anglican Church we are taught that god is a jolly fat black lesbian, and that the rapist, the exploiter, the destroyer of worlds is a white man in a business suit.
There is a word for the Oprah-fan who doesn't think she has anything to do with the fact that we just raised the debt limit to 12.4 trillion ($41,333, not per taxpayer, but per US citizen) and the person who thinks that his royalty payments to hollywood leftists have nothing to do with a stolen senate seat and a 60-39 vote to socialize medicine. Lenin had a phrase: poleznyj idiot.
(Edited by Ted Keer on 12/25, 2:57pm)
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