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elfsSo, Larry Correia is taking credit for getting Vox Day and Ayn Rand on the Hugo ballots, and then enjoying the idea that "the left" is "losing its shit" over the nomination of those two as if they were somehow representative of "conservative" values.
They're not. And it's deceitful to claim they are.
Look, I'm not going to go into Vox "If Hitler could eliminate the Jews without computers, surely we can track illegal Mexicans," "Women ruin everything," "There's no such thing as marital rape" Day's infamous history, nor am I interested in taking Ayn "No meadow is beautiful without a billboard to show man's claim" Rand apart any further. But they're not conservatives. They're radicals, and they belong in the same edge of a Venn Diagram with anyone who's primary interest is to see most of humanity reduced to cattle, with a few born and bred to ride, booted and spurred with whip in hand.
There are plenty of conservative SF writers who have won Hugos. Bujold and Weber come to mind: both adhere tightly to the conservative values of taking the world as it is and seeking out how to preserve what is best in human institutions, the research program begun by Adam Smith, Russell Kirk, Michael Oakeshott, and so forth. The Baen Catalog reads like a who's who of conservative writers; not all of them, surely, but Baen has never been a home for leftist values whatsoever. What Baen offers is confirmation of conservative values, and it has always been consistent in doing so.
Rand and Day belong to an ancient, ugly impulse that believes some people simply *are* better than others, and deserve *more* before the law, and the rest are left without protection for their weaknesses or compassion for their failings.
Before we start taking so-called "right wing" writers seriously, we should see just how many of the believe most human beings are little more than cannon fodder for their dark fantasies. SF is supposed to be forward-looking; I look forward to a world where no human being's life is considered so cheap we can just throw it away.
They're not. And it's deceitful to claim they are.
Look, I'm not going to go into Vox "If Hitler could eliminate the Jews without computers, surely we can track illegal Mexicans," "Women ruin everything," "There's no such thing as marital rape" Day's infamous history, nor am I interested in taking Ayn "No meadow is beautiful without a billboard to show man's claim" Rand apart any further. But they're not conservatives. They're radicals, and they belong in the same edge of a Venn Diagram with anyone who's primary interest is to see most of humanity reduced to cattle, with a few born and bred to ride, booted and spurred with whip in hand.
There are plenty of conservative SF writers who have won Hugos. Bujold and Weber come to mind: both adhere tightly to the conservative values of taking the world as it is and seeking out how to preserve what is best in human institutions, the research program begun by Adam Smith, Russell Kirk, Michael Oakeshott, and so forth. The Baen Catalog reads like a who's who of conservative writers; not all of them, surely, but Baen has never been a home for leftist values whatsoever. What Baen offers is confirmation of conservative values, and it has always been consistent in doing so.
Rand and Day belong to an ancient, ugly impulse that believes some people simply *are* better than others, and deserve *more* before the law, and the rest are left without protection for their weaknesses or compassion for their failings.
Before we start taking so-called "right wing" writers seriously, we should see just how many of the believe most human beings are little more than cannon fodder for their dark fantasies. SF is supposed to be forward-looking; I look forward to a world where no human being's life is considered so cheap we can just throw it away.
