Cold war gloating in space is unseemly American space dreams were too grandiloquent. Tiles flaked off their space shuttle, but in the '60s and '70s they dreamed of colonising the LaGrange points. Rebellion for this "Golden Age" of Science Fiction often meant author's freedom to boldly express misogyny and racism in a sort of "Look Up in Anger." Golden Age Science Fiction wore a quiff and ripped up cinema seats. And admit it. Ender's game was trashy Mormonia. Most Mormons learn to bullshit after two years of Mission work. Ender's Game is Orson Scott Card's megalomaniac Mormon crap. And speaking of hot piss and pissoirs. In the former communist countries a pissoir was just a pissoir, not a "Grand Design". A jar of jam was a jar of jam. And no permanently looped gif; no snarky comedian or ten million dollar advert could have morphed those dusty-brown, label- less jars full of sour plum, plonked onto the shelves of warehouse-like super
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