B. U. G. S.

I do not want to give the impression that I discourage discussion of anything here. LibAnon asked me a general question and I gave him a general answer.

But, as usual, my reply was more to what he made me think of than to his specific question. I refuse to spend any more time telling people that, when I do this, it is not aimed at THEM, and thank God LibAnon is one of the few who never takes these things personally.

But the last article was, I think, a good example of what your talking makes me think of. We need to discuss things, and in the end my product is YOUR developing concepts and planting ideas. Ideas on what?

That’s the point, I have no idea “on what.” All we have is a goal. I am no more going to the moon than the editor of Amazing Stories, William Campbell, ever went to the moon. Amazing Stories was published in the 1930s and changed its name to Analog, which is the biggest sci-fi mag today.

But while the rest of the world was fascinated by the latest words of Joe Schmoe in 1936, Campbell and his editorials talked about EVERYTHING. He got replies about EVERYTHING. Campbell will never be mentioned, because the New Wavers took over sci-fi in the 1960s, but he is one of the most influential people in all of history.

In fact, if you look in the files of Amazing Stories and Analog before Campbell died, you will find that it covered more territory than any other magazine was even vaguely interested in. In Campbell’s publication, you could say it out loud in a letter if you couldn’t get an article published. What magazine would talk about rockets and space or a completely self-contained environment or the speed of gravity back then?

The Germans made a CONCEPT of Stoddard’s work and developed the v rockets from it. A science fiction writer took the CONCEPT of the German V-1 and V-2 and developed the satellite CONCEPT in 1947. That is what the Orient does NOT do.

If you just build a Whitakerism out of what I say, I have failed.

Basics, concepts, a really Aryan, wandering mind, screw the herd. That is what this Blog should be about.