NB this is just me thinkin baout eloi...I don't have homework from '19th Century Post-Colonial Literature.' 1. Thank god bcz if I ever have to read Heart of Darkness again I'm gonna send someone on THEIR own hellish journey to Kurtz and 2. Thank god I'm no longer a lit major. I got really tired of pulling any old thing out of my ass and getting an A for writing it in a lucid and pleasing fashion. Fuuuccckkk, man.
― Abbott, Tuesday, 2 September 2008 14:57 (fifteen years ago) link
I should note Wells I srsly doubt Wells intended this, as a wicked progressive dude in many ways
Some of old HG's ideas were a little, errrrrrrrrr, less than liberal, shall we say
― Tom D., Tuesday, 2 September 2008 15:03 (fifteen years ago) link
Okay yeah maybe "liking group sex" doesn't make a body progressive.
― Abbott, Tuesday, 2 September 2008 15:06 (fifteen years ago) link
I thought it was all just a giant metaphor for class warfare?
― Masonic Boom, Tuesday, 2 September 2008 15:06 (fifteen years ago) link
His politics were progressive but for a bit of a fondness for eugenics
― Tom D., Tuesday, 2 September 2008 15:07 (fifteen years ago) link
Therefore he favoured suffrage to be limited to scientists, organisers, engineers, and others of merit, though he believed citizens should have as much freedom as possible without restricting the freedom of others....Wells believed in the theory of eugenics. In 1904 he discussed a survey paper by Francis Galton, co-founder of eugenics, saying "I believe .. It is in the sterilisation of failure, and not in the selection of successes for breeding, that the possibility of an improvement of the human stock lies."
Okay I wasn't too far off base. Why didn't that documentary about him & Jack the Ripper tell me this?
― Abbott, Tuesday, 2 September 2008 15:08 (fifteen years ago) link
This is what happens when you get up and take medicine that makes you wired and drink coffee that makes you wired and you read WIRED magazine while you smoke on your front porch and then post your first thoughts of the day on ILX.
― Abbott, Tuesday, 2 September 2008 15:09 (fifteen years ago) link
Ahm WIRED
Those upper class ladies couldn't keep their hands off him, of course
― Tom D., Tuesday, 2 September 2008 15:09 (fifteen years ago) link
/\ /\ This is why we love you, Abbott!
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― Masonic Boom, Tuesday, 2 September 2008 15:10 (fifteen years ago) link
The only funny thing I've seen on Family Guy was a take-off on the start of Back to the Future 2. "Marty! There's a problem with your daughter!" In the Delorian, Doc says, "She married a black man!" And Marty is like, "Uh...Doc...that's really not cool. I don't think I'm okay with you anymore."
― Abbott, Tuesday, 2 September 2008 15:12 (fifteen years ago) link
Was watching this movie over the weekend, and you know the bit where he arrives in 1966, and there's just about to be a nuclear/final destruction?
He's talking to his friend's son just before the people go into the bunker, and in the window of the supermarket there's an item labelled as "The latest in tubeless television screens" and whaddayaknow, there's an Ipad. A white one.
― Mark G, Tuesday, 8 May 2012 14:33 (eleven years ago) link
I liked the episode of Wishbone where they're looking at a gallery of human inventions, and it ends with a PC, and then some matte black prism that looks like the thing on the cover of Presence. The future!
― Dale, dale, dale (Abbbottt), Wednesday, 9 May 2012 02:12 (eleven years ago) link
(the Wishbone ep was covering the novel of The Time Machine)
― Dale, dale, dale (Abbbottt), Wednesday, 9 May 2012 02:14 (eleven years ago) link