Good news from the home front

[alexmegami]

So I totally blasted that exam I posted my review for. 93%, baby.

Kinda wish I'd done it for Assessments, but whatever. I think I did reasonably well on that one. Nopw the written for Assessments is coming up (1 hour), and then A&P tomorrow, and then I am DONE EXAMS FOR THE NEXT, er, two and a half weeks BUT ONLY ONE EXAM FOR THE WHOLE MONTH OF NOVEMBER but then I have to do another nine in the first two weeks of December, isn't life grand?.

Anyway.

As for more interesting things, theferrett posted about how libertarians (specifically, and other people generally) don't look at the repercussions of previous attempts at their social philosophy.

But what I really want to know is, keeping in mind the veil of ignorance, which fictional society would YOU want to live in?

He makes a pretty good argument against Star Wars. Star Trek has a few less problems, but only if you're living in the Federation. It's definitely a puzzler.

Comments

[alexmegami]

I've already tossed out Kushiel's Dart (well, maybe I could get away with Terre D'Ange, but there's still an awful lot of wars) and The Last Unicorn. Will have to think about it some.

[cythraul.livejournal.com]

The Federation was designed specifically to be an "optimistic" vision of the future. That's why we get so few details about how the damn thing works.

Brave New World comes to mind. Sure, it'd suck for us, but the world and its inhabitants are perfectly optimized for each other.

[alexmegami]

Yeah, but the whole idea is that you have to live in it.

Tanya Huff made a good point that a lot of fantasy settings suck, because 'I like things like basic sanitation'. *lol*

[cythraul.livejournal.com]

Well, that and bad times make good reading.

Hmmmm. A lot of Asimov's futures would be good. And maybe Neal Stephenson's The Diamond Age? Dunno; haven't read it in a long time.

Hmmm. "The world after the end of _____" would be a spoiler.

[libco.livejournal.com]

Xanth wouldn't be too bad LOL