He agrees with his critics?
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matociquala who saw it via james_nicoll.
If I read it correctly, he essentially agrees what people have been saying about him. e.g., he calls himself a Luddite and he actually uses the expression "why buy the cow, when you can get the milk for free?" It's unfortunate that he doesn't offer any rational for why he thinks his warnings are valid. It would have been better if he told us why he thinks distributing fiction on the net will disenfranchise authors. I suspect it involves some specious argument which assumes all creative works are fungible. Or to use his analogy, the only possible use for a cow is the milk. All milks are interchangeable as are all cows. I honestly don't think this is the case for creative works. Creative works are not interchangeable and they have multiple uses. However, all he says here is that it's bad because he feels it's bad.
He also says that buried the lede. i.e., he actually meant his post to be about the evils of the net. If running SFWA is as tedious as he says it is, I don't really think you can blame the net for that any more than you can blame a telephone or the post office. However, I've never run SFWA or any comparable organization, so what do I know?
At least this time he compared himself to Eisenhower rather than Ted Kaczynski. The difference is that Eisenhower, in his farewell address, did not resort to name calling but he did explain the rationale behind his warnings. So he may have aspired to Eisenhower. I'm not sure he reached Eisenhower.
BTW, I have to say that Dr. Hendrix's post is an exceptionally savvy bit of self-promotion via the internet. I hadn't heard of him before this. So I certainly wouldn't have looked him up otherwise. But now, his name and the name of his books are all over the internet. Unfortunately, none of his book blurbs grabbed me. (I'm not saying they're bad, just that they're not my cup of tea.) Obviously, I wouldn't expect him to have his novels up on the net. His publisher might have put something up. I'm not motivated enough to check.
matociquala who saw it via james_nicoll.If I read it correctly, he essentially agrees what people have been saying about him. e.g., he calls himself a Luddite and he actually uses the expression "why buy the cow, when you can get the milk for free?" It's unfortunate that he doesn't offer any rational for why he thinks his warnings are valid. It would have been better if he told us why he thinks distributing fiction on the net will disenfranchise authors. I suspect it involves some specious argument which assumes all creative works are fungible. Or to use his analogy, the only possible use for a cow is the milk. All milks are interchangeable as are all cows. I honestly don't think this is the case for creative works. Creative works are not interchangeable and they have multiple uses. However, all he says here is that it's bad because he feels it's bad.
He also says that buried the lede. i.e., he actually meant his post to be about the evils of the net. If running SFWA is as tedious as he says it is, I don't really think you can blame the net for that any more than you can blame a telephone or the post office. However, I've never run SFWA or any comparable organization, so what do I know?
At least this time he compared himself to Eisenhower rather than Ted Kaczynski. The difference is that Eisenhower, in his farewell address, did not resort to name calling but he did explain the rationale behind his warnings. So he may have aspired to Eisenhower. I'm not sure he reached Eisenhower.
BTW, I have to say that Dr. Hendrix's post is an exceptionally savvy bit of self-promotion via the internet. I hadn't heard of him before this. So I certainly wouldn't have looked him up otherwise. But now, his name and the name of his books are all over the internet. Unfortunately, none of his book blurbs grabbed me. (I'm not saying they're bad, just that they're not my cup of tea.) Obviously, I wouldn't expect him to have his novels up on the net. His publisher might have put something up. I'm not motivated enough to check.
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Date: 2007-04-16 03:04 am (UTC)It certainly isn't the case for milks. (Cooking tip: Whenever a recipe calls for PET milk, they probably don't mean *your* pet.)
>> BTW, I have to say that Dr. Hendrix's post is an exceptionally savvy bit of self-promotion via the internet.
But it hasn't really changed my opinion about buying livestock from the man. Or books. The free writing samples he's giving out on the internet ("Luddite Manifesto part one" as told to Will Shetterly, and "Pathetique Defense" opus twelve for orchestra and MediaBistro) didn't impress me with their wit, ideas, or character.
He generates a decent conflict, though.