How We’ve Come So Far So Fast

Over the last few months, every gathering, every cultural clash, in the crannies of science fiction culture so hidden that only we, the crazy people, care about them, or in national culture, I keep hearing “but then wasn’t like now. Now it’s all crazy” or “Now things are so polarized” or “Now–”

Um…

Okay. Part of the reason things are now so polarized is that before dissenting voices were isolated. You couldn’t speak up, because there was no network of alternative news. Say, Benghazi, for ins...