Orson Scott Card Fouls His Own Nest

[_Droopy]

I think Orson has grown a lot since that 2000 interview, and I also don't think his views are being fully understood in those "snip-its" of that interview.

Droopy I've heard Card many times as a sub with various Conservative talk radio shows, and he doesn't at all promote most of the things you are thinking he does, but the exact opposite, being very intelligent and wise. Obviously he being himself isn't going to say every single thing we all agree on, but I don't believe you've really represented his full views of these issues accurately. Although, I would agree he likely shouldn't have said things the way he said them at the time, and I don't think they are entirely his views now.

All well and good faqs, but I've read other of his op-eds over the years in which he's expressed similar views. I'm always willing to let others speak for themselves and clarify their positions, however. I understand that he's a staunch social conservative, but I also think that somewhere along the line during his life he absorbed the reigning - and primarily emotion-based - class envy mentality that both American and European society is, for all intents, bathed in (which is to say, its media, entertainment, public education, and academic culture) and allowed himself to be affected by it.

I've come to think over time that the church is too important to be left to its intellectuals.

[_Droopy]

Freedom is not giving a damn.

I think Janis Joplin expressed the modernist nihilistic impulse a bit more eloquently:

"Freedom's just another word for nothing left to lose."

[_Droopy]

You are right, this land of uncertainty without rules is not anarchy, it is more like Droopy's Shangri-La.

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[_Hermes]

I don't really like Joplin's quip, precisely because of the hint of desperation she conveys. The really free person is not desperate. If I am really free, then I really don't care. Having nothing to lose really means lacking the need to say as much.