{"id":1712,"date":"2007-08-18T09:23:47","date_gmt":"2007-08-18T14:23:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/neanderpundit.com\/?p=1712"},"modified":"2007-08-18T09:23:47","modified_gmt":"2007-08-18T14:23:47","slug":"more-science-fiction-discussion","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/neanderpundit.com\/?p=1712","title":{"rendered":"More science fiction discussion"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Re-read &#8216;odd John&#8221; by Olaf Stapledon last night. Moderately well written, really, for it&#8217;s genre- but it has one of the classic faults of science fiction of it&#8217;s time.<\/p>\n<p>That fault- and one that is prevalent in a LOT of SF, is that there is some belief that man will become &#8220;civilized&#8221;- in other words, man will eventually put away his weapons of war and cease to fight. <\/p>\n<p>This of course is abject bullshit. It&#8217;s not quite reason for me to toss the book repeatedly against a wall, but it&#8217;s bullshit. Man will always fight. Nothing will ever stop that. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Re-read &#8216;odd John&#8221; by Olaf Stapledon last night. Moderately well written, really, for it&#8217;s genre- but it has one of the classic faults of science fiction of it&#8217;s time. That fault- and one that is prevalent in a LOT of SF, is that there is some belief that man will become &#8220;civilized&#8221;- in other words, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1712","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/neanderpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1712"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/neanderpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/neanderpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/neanderpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/neanderpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1712"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/neanderpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1712\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/neanderpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1712"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/neanderpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1712"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/neanderpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1712"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}