Comments on: Taking The Sky http://www.tychoish.com/2005/10/taking-the-sky/ now without a net Thu, 04 Dec 2008 00:26:13 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6.3 By: Sam Kleinman http://www.tychoish.com/2005/10/taking-the-sky/#comment-679 Sam Kleinman Mon, 31 Oct 2005 07:20:00 +0000 http://www.tychoish.com/2005/10/taking-the-sky/#comment-679 <p>if theres a dark undeer belly, then it's not utopian, is it? and I think that's the point he's making.</p> <p>don't knock postmodernism for real unless you have something better. I mean I hate to love to love to hate to love postmodernism, but really, is modernism better? nope. existensilism? feh. romanticism, oh yeah, there was a good idea! but seriously folks....</p> <p>a prori utopia/perfection, is arguably even more yuppie minded, if by yuppie minded, you mean vague and unsubstantial...</p> <p>cheers sam</p> if theres a dark undeer belly, then it’s not utopian, is it? and I think that’s the point he’s making.

don’t knock postmodernism for real unless you have something better. I mean I hate to love to love to hate to love postmodernism, but really, is modernism better? nope. existensilism? feh. romanticism, oh yeah, there was a good idea! but seriously folks….

a prori utopia/perfection, is arguably even more yuppie minded, if by yuppie minded, you mean vague and unsubstantial…

cheers
sam

]]> By: Jason Leary http://www.tychoish.com/2005/10/taking-the-sky/#comment-680 Jason Leary Thu, 27 Oct 2005 23:50:25 +0000 http://www.tychoish.com/2005/10/taking-the-sky/#comment-680 <p>THE FIREFLY SERIES</p> <pre><code>The Firefly series is probably as close to excellent as any series the sci-fi series has aired in a long time . It isn't the sort of pop culture kitch like Dungeons and Dragons or that ever so jejune and banal Stargate Sg-1 . The actresses that play River and Inara are especially beautiful and those characters are fascinating . One drawback is that in a recent interview the creator of the series made some relativist/postmodernist typically weird comments when he made a statement to the effect of talking about a utopian world in one of these episodes AS IF utopia was somehow bad . To be ANTI-utopian/to speak of utopia AS IF it were somehow bad, shows typical *yuppie-minded* postmodernist sensibility . Utopia is long overdue . The creator (or one of the creators) of the firefly series claimed some false proposition to the effect that whenever you have a utopia ---you (SUPPOSEDLY) have a dark side underneath . These yuppie-minded postmodernists give the sense that resignation is somehow an acceptible outlook (which it is NOT) and that words 'perfection' and 'utopia' are somehow dirty words . That is so bloody weird of them ! Resignation, selling-out </code></pre> THE FIREFLY SERIES

The Firefly series is probably as close to excellent as any series the sci-fi series has aired in a long time . It isn't the sort of pop culture kitch like Dungeons and Dragons or that ever so jejune and banal Stargate Sg-1 .

  The actresses that play River and Inara are especially  beautiful and those characters are fascinating .

  One drawback is that in a recent interview the creator of the series made some relativist/postmodernist typically weird comments when he made a statement to the effect of talking about a utopian world in one of these episodes AS IF utopia was somehow bad . To be ANTI-utopian/to speak of utopia AS IF it were somehow bad, shows typical *yuppie-minded* postmodernist sensibility . Utopia is long overdue .

   The creator (or one of the creators) of the firefly series claimed some false proposition to the effect that whenever you have a utopia ---you (SUPPOSEDLY) have a dark side underneath . These yuppie-minded postmodernists give the sense that resignation is somehow an acceptible outlook (which it is NOT) and that words 'perfection' and 'utopia' are somehow dirty words . That is so bloody weird of them ! Resignation, selling-out
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