Re: This Tweet on Twitter…
This bent towards Materialism probably explains the “monsters are the real humans now, humans are the real monsters now” ending, which is insufferable.
Ender’s Game’s ending is just as: “How can we wipe out a species who is genociding us and won’t stop and we can’t make peace with?!”
Easy: <DW pushes button>
These are all intellectual games. Actual humans in the meat and blood world wouldn’t think twice about doing it. China, India, Africa, Central and South America, Islam, it’d be done and with no looking back or feeling bad.
Nearly every culture and people in human history, the same. Romans? Done and done. Veni, vidi, vici.
The Huns. Mongols. France before the Revolution. British Empire. Soviet Russia.
His other flaws aside, Heinlein got that right in Starship Troopers: when the genocide of Humanity comes a-calling, you get out the guns and kill the invaders.
It’s only in the post-WWII West that we got this whiny, self-loathing brand of SF that positions us as the bad guys because we’re defending ourselves from annihilation, or worse yet, blaming us for the need to defend ourselves from annihilation.
Here’s “my truth”: War is not a thing to be desired, but when they’re attacking, and won’t stop, and won’t stop until every single human is dead, you kill with impunity for your survival and the survival of your children, and theirs, and everyone after them.
And this is a good and moral thing. It is a RIGHTEOUS war, a war approved of by God, because it isn’t required that humanity lay down their life for the Bugs.
We are a deeply flawed but also deeply joyous and amazing species, and Humanity is NOT the real monsters.
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