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Oh shit. I'm not sure where I fit in America anymore. I'm not particularly religious but there are a few Adam Sandler movies that made me giggle a bit.
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You fit into the greater part of America who realizes there's more to life than playing out your own self-esteem issues with religion. Seriously, this country doesn't need a God, it needs a good fuck after a night of alcohol and good times with friends to put things in fucking perspective. Religion is this country is bullshit anyway, it's just another band-aid to cover up what is really wrong in this country and that problem is that the American Ideal of Perfection is quite hollow. But enough of my bullshit, let's cut to the heart of this:
Orson Scott Card is a shitty writer. I know this because I was given one of those 'how to write science fiction' books that he wrote and all he did was jack off about his shitty life and how he wrote and how he took this big piece of paper and drew a map of this story and blah blah what the fuck ever. The point is that sci-fi hit a slump where everything was a bland ripoff and they turned this into the frachises we see today whenever you go into a bookstore: nothing but reprints of the Golden Age and then the millions upon millions of bullshit covers that nobody would pick up for their cover price. And Card is a symbol of this turn into shit. And honestly, after reading that story, I think I know why I turned away from science fiction as well. At it's very heart it's turned from a good thing to a bad thing full of angry sadsacks trying to rationalize their stupid behavior problems.