Posted 22 March 2005 - 03:22 AM
Literary license of Infernity.
I think Infernity didn't have just one talk with one guy about the end of the world, she must have in fact talked with several guys over several meetings, who have the conviction that there is an end of the world and it is not far off.
Secondly I think that those guys with whom Infernity talked with are not really atheists, materialists, or guys who agreed with her wholeheartedly yet still insisted on an end of the world in a near future scenario.
What I mean is that Infernity made use of literary licence to create that one character who is an atheist, a materialist, who agrees with her in everything she herself is convinced of, namely, that there is no end to mankind and that immortality is at hand(?)
But why would she engage in a literary license? Nothing wrong there, it is a totally legitimate instrument in writing: to get a conversation going, to fish for information, to get confirmation of one's own positions, to assure oneself that one has more and better reasons for one's convictions than others have for theirs.
In the case of Stranger, to all appearances, the writers he cites and he himself also, they are into the most extreme of literarcy licenses. You have got to engage in their kinds of literary licenses in order to be able to talk with them on their topics with a straight face and with tongue in jowls*.
What about myself?
I think mankind will self-destruct what with guys like Bush and guys like Osama bin Laden, who can’t think of achieving security and democracy on the one part and the other political-religious autonomy and immunity of the Islamic world, on the other side, without fire and blood.
Besides, there are enough guys with the most determined of conviction that this world is not good enough for mankind, and mankind is also not in the character and situation it should really be in, unless and until the world and mankind are destroyed and restored in an improved order.
So, the sooner we have the next stage of human evolution, that of mechanized man, the better for the survival of man.
Susma
*Tongue in jowls, is that a literary license? hahahaha and hehehehe.