Hyperdemocracy

Posted by Hiraghm 12 years, 1 month ago to Philosophy
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This is an essay written long ago by John W. Cambell. He's the "mentor" of most of the great science fiction writers of the Golden Age of science fiction.

In it, he explains the possibility that all men are not, in fact, created equal...

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  • Posted by Hiraghm 12 years, 1 month ago in reply to this comment.
    Might have been. I was looking to post Heinlein's Pragmatics of Patriotism speech and (due to lack of sleep, I'll rationalize) became confused as to which one of these two I had posted and which I wanted to post, so I posted both of them. I tend to associate them mentally because they're among my most favorite essays.
    I'd like to post Cambell's "Barbarian, Tribesman, Citizen" and "The Barbarians Among Us" but I can't find either online and I'm (currently) too lazy to type either of them in.
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