{"id":5748,"date":"2014-05-14T19:06:04","date_gmt":"2014-05-14T23:06:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/?p=5748"},"modified":"2014-05-14T19:06:04","modified_gmt":"2014-05-14T23:06:04","slug":"john-c-wright-on-the-death-of-freedom-in-science-fiction","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/?p=5748","title":{"rendered":"John C. Wright on the death of freedom in Science Fiction"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>By way of our friend Anthony Sacramone<\/strong> (I&#8217;d link to his blog, but he&#8217;s in one of his hiatuses. Hiati?) an excellent article from <i>Intercollegiate Review<\/i>, &#8220;Heinlein, Hugos and Hogwash,&#8221; by John C. Wright concerning the sad state of the Science Fiction &#038; Fantasy Writers of America, an organization from which I have also withdrawn:<br \/>\n<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The purpose of all this hogwash is not to aid the plight of minorities. The purpose is power. The purpose is terror.<\/p>\n<p>One need not ignite a suicide-bomb to enact a reign of terror. One need only have the power to hurt a man\u2019s reputation or income, and be willing to use the power in an arbitrary, treacherous, lunatic, and cruel fashion. For this, the poisonous tongue suffices.<\/p>\n<p>At one time, science fiction was an oasis of intellectual liberty, a place where no idea was sacrosanct and no idea was unwelcome. Now speculative fiction makes speculative thinkers so unwelcome that, after a decade of support, I resigned my membership in SFWA in disgust. SFWA bears no blame for all these witch-hunts, or even most; but SFWA spreads the moral atmosphere congenial to the witch-hunters, hence not congenial to my dues money.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Read it all <a href=\"http:\/\/www.intercollegiatereview.com\/index.php\/2014\/05\/07\/heinlein-hugos-and-hogwash\/\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By way of our friend Anthony Sacramone (I&#8217;d link to his blog, but he&#8217;s in one of his hiatuses. Hiati?) an excellent article from Intercollegiate Review, &#8220;Heinlein, Hugos and Hogwash,&#8221; by John C. Wright concerning the sad state of the Science Fiction &#038; Fantasy Writers of America, an organization from which I have also withdrawn: &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/?p=5748\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">John C. Wright on the death of freedom in Science Fiction<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[2,12],"tags":[1465,2510,2550],"class_list":["post-5748","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-authors","category-publishing","tag-john-c-wright","tag-science-fiction","tag-sfwa"],"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5748","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5748"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5748\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5748"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5748"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5748"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}