Pining For Feudalism As An Antidote For Modernity (2011)

i was trying to remember Brin's politics & still dont have a good feel, but i quite enjoyed the review: https://www.davidbrin.com/politics.html

this article is a great takedown of John C Wright's post. and bless his soul- i loved the Golden Oecumeme trilogy (https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Golden_Oecumene) so much when i read it, but yeah, John not only holds/held some dark scary views, he went so far as to create a good antithesis of hiw we might think. i wasnt aware Brin or others were replying but i was following John's blog. itcs awesome that we have such a great, enjoyable, still necessary rebuttal to an idea that's still scarily about. i do wonder what else might be added, ehat else we might say, but this is an awesome deacde old link to share, thanks.

I quite enjoyed this polemic, but just can't reconcile the bit at the end:

"Oh, sure, I recognize this snarky grouchiness as what it is... part of today's viciously treasonous phenomenon called "culture war." It all fits into a tsunami of know-nothing rage expressed by the Murdochians, their anti-science, anti-progress rejection of all possibility of human improvability."

I'm assuming he means Rupert Murdoch! I'm not sure of the US context, but in Australia his son's publications are for many people their only recourse for freedom of speech, repudiating socialist 'culture wars' and an escape from the domestic mainstream media echo chamber.

For goodness sake, The majority of the Australian MSM and the $1.2 billion a year taxpayer funded Australian Broadcasting Corporation, want to establish a 'press council' to outlaw News Limited publications and any other publication that challenges the prevailing socialist false narrative.

But perhaps I'm one of the few that still believes free speech includes that which you don't agree with.