The new series of Torchwood (the Doctor Who spin-off, and, yes, Torchwood is an anagram of Doctor Who) is pretty good. "Children of Earth" is well worth watching, and has played havoc with my editing down of System of Economical Contradictions (volume 1) for the Proudhon Reader!
The new series of Torchwood (the Doctor Who spin-off, and, yes, Torchwood is an anagram of Doctor Who) is pretty good. "Children of Earth" is well worth watching, and has played havoc with my editing down of System of Economical Contradictions (volume 1) for the Proudhon Reader!
Last night, day 4, everyone’s favourite pan-sexual SF hero Captain Jack Harkness got all wobbly with the evil aliens, proclaiming that humanity was at its best when we practice "An injury to one is an injury to all"! Yes, indeed… sadly he did not say where that philosophy came from, but still! The IWW should be happy…
Perhaps some Torchwood fans will google the expression? There is a wikipedia entry on it and from there it is a short stop to find out about the IWW and anarcho-syndicalism. Which may be of interest, given the thought-provoking statistics on child mortality which places the evil aliens’ demands in an unpleasant context (and a particularly damning one for our capitalist system!). I’m not saying any more, as I would not want to spoil it for others. If you like SF, I would recommend checking this series out (the previous two series were a bit hit-and-miss).
Tonight is the climax (and anyone who knows Captain Jack knows that is the right word!), and I have no idea how it is going to pan out. Hopefully it will not be an Iain M. Banks-style anti-climax…
Don’t get me wrong, I love Iain Banks (particularly the communist-anarchist Culture related novels) but he builds up such wonderful cliff-hangers that the ending always seems a wee bit disappointing). Although, I still this Ursula Le Guin’s SF classic The Dispossessed is still the best (fictional) book about an anarchist society there is.
I’m working on a "serious" AFAQ blog post on The Internationale and I’ll be making some comments on a discussion on Group Selection (or altruism?) I attended, but I thought I would share my interest in SF and this little mention of libertarian ethics in mainstream culture.
Until I blog again, be seeing you!