Just a random thought about how authors can deal with incredibly big subjects but fail to actually grasp them themselves. Sorta like how Ray Bradbury thinks Fahrenheit 451 is about how people listen to the radio too much.
This is why The Death of the Author theory of literary analysis is kind of cool
Because you can just ignore them when they go "No, the story was about how we need stronger trade tariffs on rice!"
I think Bradbury is the only dude who is wrong about his own work to any large extent (At least that I know of). Like other authors might be repugnant or lib as shit, but generally they're at least somewhat cognisant of the themes within their own works. Not to say that one cannot interpret their works kn other ways, and in ways the author did not mean to, but Bradbury is the only one to insist on an interpretation of his own work so heterodox that nobody else buys it.
I also see this William Gibson quote a lot:
Conspiracy theory's got to be simple. Sense doesn't come into it. People are more scared of how complicated shit actually is than they ever are about whatever's supposed to be behind the conspiracy.
Which is funny because Gibson retweets every bit of Russia-related conspiracy nonsense.
If you want to have your mind blown, take a look at Morgan’s blog - a solid chunk of it is him hating trans people and diving to the defense of Graham Linetan
I want to say that's shocking for a guy writing a series that posits total morphological freedom, but really should have seen it coming after the squicky virtual torture scene.
I knew it was some form of mass media , and my mind went to radio. Probably because it's a radio headset in story.
You know I read the book, but I think the movie may have just pushed it out of my mind.
Orwell's works could mostly have been written by someone who isn't from the left. I mean his most prominent works of fiction are Animal Farm (A work criticial of Stalin) and 1984 (A work critical of Stalin). While the genuine fondness he shows for Marx, Lenin and Trotsky in Animal Farm would be hard to replicate from a right wing perspective, the core message of revolution betrayed could have been written by someone with the political ideals of Edmund Burke.
Gibson rose to prominence by innovating in a genre built around the critique of certain societal trends, and he has somehow absorbed none of that criticism.
Yeah, his Twitter was illuminating during the Trump era and explains why "Hillary won" was in Agency. I love the Sprawl Trilogy and his other books, but christ his ShitLibbery is as bad as Patton Oswalts, if not worse. Especially since he's an Ex-pat that has no intention of coming back to America from Canada.
No only do I know all about his bad politics, I know all about his weird sexual fetishes thanks to reading Neuromancer
