What's wrong with the world

[james_davis_nicoll]

Commies. Definitely Commies.

Comments

[seth ellis (from livejournal.com)]

Yes, I’m fully aware that forces of darkness are closing in on all sides. They’ve been closing in on all sides forever, and the dawn of the industrial age made it worse.

Wow, that's some slow closing in. You'd think it'd be pretty easy to dodge.

Seriously, the more potent and far-reaching people claim these dark conspiracies to be, the more incompetent it makes the conspiracies look, or they would have won by now and forced their dark resource-sharing on us all. Also, is Hoyt claiming that people used to be more free pre-1750 or so? It's a bold claim.

[vschanoes.livejournal.com]

Also, is Hoyt claiming that people used to be more free pre-1750 or so?

Well, you know, that was pre-communism, which is the one true source of all evil, so...

[captaincrowbar.myopenid.com (from livejournal.com)]

Also, is Hoyt claiming that people used to be more free pre-1750 or so?

For certain values of "people".

[baeraad.livejournal.com]

Errrrrr... possibly she figures that before the Industrial Revolution everyone was a proud, self-sufficient farmer type, and things started going downhill when mass production and specialisation started requiring rules and organisation and other things that people like Hoyt thinks threaten their rugged individualism?

The sheer amount of things you have to ignore in order to look at it that way is nothing short of staggering, but I doubt that would stop her - and anyway, any true reactionary needs to have some sort of lost Golden Age to look back at and claim that it will return if only people would stop, y'know, doing stuff.

[scott-sanford.livejournal.com]

Dawn makes the darkness...darker?

Really, though, I think suggesting that the author needs an editor is addressing the wrong problem.