That regime is to libertarianism as Communism is to anarchism. They will make their state libertarian about the same time a Communist regime will achieve the withering away of the state.
Note: One thing the US left and US right have in common: "We stand for individual freedom. Here's a list of the things we want to outlaw -- don't drop it on your foot."
]]>Not yet done, I think: Holmes is King Arthur; Moriarty is Merlin. Holmes is the same person as Jane Austen. Holmes is Lucifer.
]]>"How important is it? I don't know and I don't know how to find out."
It requires patience; but once complete gender change back and forth becomes practical (and reasonably cheap), you will be able to gain personal knowledge.
Note that current gender changes have limitations. To begin with, the skeleton doesn't get changed.
Digression: I might try being temporarily female. But I would not want to be even temporarily righthanded.
]]>As for "But their getting published proves the system does work" -- we don't know what books which could have sold as well never got bought. Might be zero, might be thousands.
]]>Not that new. Several writers predicted the Soviet Union's future for the next few centuries. Those who predicted its collapse in our lifetime didn't realize it would be relatively peaceful. Nobody predicted the declining social acceptance of smoking in the First World.
And here's what I believe is a complete list of sf writers who foresaw the rise of rock music among non-Blacks:
]]>In the US, such drugs can be prescribed "off label."
]]>And I use three. The third being multi-sensory "diagrams."
]]>However, I'm unlikely to live long enough to take advantage of it. Unless, of course, life extension research pays off more and earlier than I expect.
]]>The author's a political scientist, so he surely must be right.
Feel better, Brits?
]]>Yes, there was one: The Instrument of Government.
Why it's obscure: Cromwell had less than no use for it.
]]>Many "pure Germans" have Slavic ancestors.
]]>4) Military science fiction. 5) The story has spaceships in it.
]]>I know it when I feel/see/body-sense it.
Note: This is a fifth spatial dimension.
And it's probably just one of the shadows on the wall of my cave.
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