"... On Feb 21, 6:42 am, archytas <[email protected]> wrote: ..."
> Orson Scott Card was unknown to me - thanks Gruff. I need to focus > more on writing now than reading, but will be searching Green > Metropolis. Card is quite the writer, mostly in science fantasy. I think the Ender quartet is his sole excursion into sci-fi. But if you can only read one of his books, let me recommend Speaker for The Dead. It can be read alone and apart from the rest of the quartet. Of course if you just read Speaker, you might be hooked into reading the rest. His ideas are quite revolutionary given that he is Mormon by birth, and while he's not been excommunicated from the LDS church, he's definitely not their favorite famous person. Orin Hatch is. > I believe life could be much better than it is - one can > obviously spend one's time doing this for oneself and family - but > this isn't remotely enough for me in a society armed to the teeth and > prepared to do what it does. We do not seem to be able to arm > ourselves for peace or reward what needs to be done. I too believe life could be much better and will be -- perhaps in our generation. I sense the human species is currently undergoing a gigantic sea change that will enable us to relate to each other in terms other than violence and greed. > Hegel thought > the availability of history gave us the ability to transcend - That is likely true -- given the ability of more people to have access to history, to understand it and to extrapolate the lessons it has to offer. I think we are on the cusp of such a change and a truer version of history is readily available for any willing to put forth the work to extract it from the biased histories that exist. > What strikes me is that we live in a society (strikes came out via > typo to stirkes - this seems descriptive!) capable of massive waste. > Millions on sports players (the Indian Premier League is destroying > cricket however much I may like the instant appeal of Indian dancing > girls - sorry Vam - the sport has collapsed under the spectacle), > packaging everywhere - our ability to throw money at everything > unimportant is dire. Yet there could be beauty in realising we could > re-channel all this. I know what you mean. I'm not a sports fan -- never have been -- probably due to my complete inability at any of them. Yet I'm a big fan of sports as a healthier pastime than war. I'd rather have a world full of sports than a world even partially full of war. --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups ""Minds Eye"" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/Minds-Eye?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
