I'd argue that Weir's stories involve politics, but they aren't about politics.
And they're certainly not the heavy-handed politics Star Trek has been up to for the past decade. Which Weir actually says in the bit of the article OP conveniently didn't quote.
As in, the immediately preceding paragraph.
Oddly enough, all of the reblogs are people who agree with OP. Almost like OP can't stand opposing opinions.
The irony is that sneering at Weir just for being a white male author is itself racist and sexist, and proves they aren't treated as value-neutral.
And if you're saying "the creative work of anyone other than a white male is automatically political", you're an insufferable bore and I don't want to hear the rest of your political opinions.
Same with the people in the notes who insisted any work is political.
Like what are you talking about civilizations were only about food before the Industrial Revolution 💀 are you forgetting the countless philosophers…? The birth of democracy? The arts? RELIGION??
Did you pay attention in English literature classes?
You're assuming the viewpoint of the character - who is explicitly saying this to justify herself to the man she is condemning to death - is supposed to be correct and objective.
And, if you throttle back on the exaggeration, industrialization did allow us to spend much less time just producing food.
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>Imagine we funded science not just for militarization purposes!”
Um...you do?
Do you think NASA is throwing money at SpaceX because it can be militarized?
How about medical research?
Also, in Hail Mary, the entire point of Stratt is that she's the hard woman making hard choices. She even says the knives are out and aimed at her back the second the Hail Mary clears the atmosphere.
She's gonna get it from everyone. She's the scape(velocity)goat.
She's Cincinnatus, except she doesn't get to go back to her farm.
"If you're explicitly not trying to beat people over the head with a political message, you have nothing to actually say."
...Huh?
>So his self insert in Project Hail Mary was never Grace, it was the authoritarian technocrat who would gladly engage in mad scientist type geoengineering projects without any hesitation or sentimentality. Makes sense.
>But there's something really wrong with you if that's ALL you are interested in. As said, its incurious and privileged.
>Star Trek politely begs the question "What if we got out of our own way and did what most of our ethical systems tell us to do instead of making excuses?"
"Star Trek is about clean-cut, ethical solutions, all the time."
The only ST show I watched on-air regularly was TNG, and it's not even true for that.
He didn't say or imply anything about represenation.
Imagine digging up a 21 year old comedy webcomic to bash the creator today.
Also, I assume Stephanesheppard here didn't read Artemis, which is essentially a noir thriller story on the moon. There's definetely villains and violence in that one.
But also a lot of complicated moral dilemnas.
In fact, I don't think a single person in the reblogs mentioned Artemis, even by implication.
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