OK, thanks for the simile, it makes sense. I didn't notice the trend but it might be so. I tend to skeem through / skip entierly comments that are clearly not on topic.
Also, I like that all you characters have a name that starts with M!
I understand the concern and certainly believe that troll farms are slowly creeping into Lemmy as it gains traction. However, I think most of US bashing is authentic as it reflects the enormous impact of US political life on the rest of the planet. Moreover, other countries receive a constant flux of information about the US, to the point where it seems that US news is as important as domestic news. The fact that Trump remains omnipresent in the media doesn't help either.
Yes. If you go back in time, you end up where the Earth used to be at that moment, I.e. thousands, hundreds of thousands, millions, hudreds of millions kms away.
Arguably, if you go back a full galactic year you can end up somewhat in the vincinity of the solar system.
Edit: from the backlash, I guess my contribution was misunderstood :-/.
I meant that the top trying to hold on to its power against an increasly conscious base is how you get fascism.
I'll try to make myself clearer next time
I'm out of the loop on this one but I will seize the opportunity to say all the bad things I think about that book.
First, the writing is overly complicated with no other apparent objective than to confuse the reader with extremely long and circumvented sentences.
Second, the story is constantly chopped with long and boring chapters that are solely informative on various aspects of sperm whale anatomy, ecology, behavior (riddled with dated errors andmisinterpretations), as well as whaling specifics, ranging from the work of the carpenter to the process of removing the head of whales.
The first duty of a story is to entertain, its second is to instruct. Good writers manage to do both seamlessly. Melville makes a total messout of it, breaking the fourth wall when explaining how hard it is to collect accurate information, citing his sources in the body of the texte, and completely losing the interest of the reader in the process.
There.
I'm trying to finish it for the sake of it. It is painful.
I really liked the Red Stripe and Abita when I visited the US. Don't come near me with a Bud or a Coors through