From: sbooth@lonestar.utsa.edu (Simon E. Booth)
Subject: Re: Walking down to the student center last night
Organization: University of Texas at San Antonio
Distribution: na
Date: Tue, 13 Oct 1992 20:30:37 GMT

In article <Bw2Dts.Gpz@rice.edu> patrick@is.rice.edu (Patrick L Humphrey) writes:
>In article <1992Oct12.201031.16338@ringer.cs.utsa.edu> sbooth@lonestar.utsa.edu (Simon E. Booth) writes:
>>In article <BvzquD.LCF@rice.edu> patrick@is.rice.edu (Patrick L Humphrey) writes:
>>>In article <1992Oct12.033035.8768@ringer.cs.utsa.edu> sbooth@lonestar.utsa.edu (Simon E. Booth) writes:
>>>>In article <BvwtIt.1JI@rice.edu> patrick@is.rice.edu (Patrick L Humphrey) writes:
>>>>>In article <1992Oct10.051024.29239@ringer.cs.utsa.edu> sbooth@lonestar.utsa.edu (Simon E. Booth) writes:
>>>>>>In article <BvrJI4.Is1@mentor.cc.purdue.edu> greens@mentor.cc.purdue.edu (Shawn Green) writes:
>>>>>>>Here's my blow-hard, simplistic, brutish (and therefore aptly suited to the
>>>>>>>alt.rush-limbaugh group) opinion on the abortion issue:
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>The right of the woman to choose what to do with her body supercedes any rights
>>>>>>>the unborn parasite has to her body.
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>There.  I have spoken.  This issue will never be resolved by consensus.  If
>>>>>>>people want to resolve it by majority-rule vote, that's fine.  I believe
>>>>>>>most of America is pro-choice.  My only regret is that as a male, I will
>>>>>>>most likely never have the opportunity to squash an Operation Rescue person
>>>>>>>trying to block my entry to an abortion clinic.
>>>>>>
>>>>>>Especially if the Operation Rescue people carried the appropriate hardware.
>>>>>>Try to squash someone who is armed...
>>>>>>
>>>>>>As the people depicted in my planned novel will be.   In my version of the
>>>>>>future, there's a scene where there are pro-choicers at an abortion clinic,
>>>>>>and the pro-lifers show u, and proceed to use truncheons.  The police
>>>>>>then show, and instead of arresting the pro-lifers, they join in with them
>>>>>>against the pro-choice people.  But then the PC crowd would have a fit....
>>>>>
>>>>>Uh, Simon...before you go off to write your masterpiece, you might be
>>>>>interested to know -- it's already been written by Margaret Atwood.  Have
>>>>>you ever heard of "A Handmaid's Tale"?  :-)
>>>>>
>>>>I enjoyed the story, although I didn't like the slam against religion.
>>>>In the story I'm planning, things would be depicted much more openly.
>>>>Atwood's story dealt mostly with government control of reproductive rights.
>>>>What I am planning is more a more across the board depiction.  Basically,
>>>>I am planning a story in set in the future in which the people are so fed up
>>>>with liberalism that they elect a leader who pledges to erradicate liberalism
>>>>and its supporters. I can make Atwoods story look like a Sunday picnic.
>>>
>>>Be sure and let us know all about it, then -- I'm sure people will want to
>>>know who to avoid...:-)
>>>
>>You're worried about meeting a science fiction author in person??
>>Orwell (Eric Blair) worte 1984 and no one was afraid of him.
>
>Of course, no one really knew about him until after he'd died, either...but
>then again, he wasn't writing long diatribes fantasizing about actually
>achieving a world he'd written about.  You're the one dreaming of this
>veritable dystopia and who's actually said you think it would be good for
>us.  Now do you get it?
>
Wait a minute, I'm not "fantisizing" about achieving this highly fictittious
world I plan to write about.  In no way was I actually promoting this system,
the same that Orwell wasn't advocating "Big Brother" in 1984, in fact it
was a criticism of totalitarianism.  My planned story will show how this
"New Order Party" takes over based on the fact that extremism breeds extremism
from the opposing side.  For the record, I am not a Nazi.  I seem to hear that
word quite a bit these days, preceded sometimes by some expletive.
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