my mantra in favour of calling everything slop while not getting all “downfall of society” about it
[ID: The Wikipedia article for “Stugeon’s Law.” It reads: “Sturgeon’s law (or Sturgeon’s revelation) is an adage stating "ninety percent of everything is crap”. It was coined by Theodore Sturgeon, an American science fiction author and critic, and was inspired by his observation that, while science fiction was often derided for its low quality by critics, most work in other fields was low-quality too, and so science fiction was no different.“ End ID]
Sturgeon’s Revelation has been one of my guiding lights for half a century now. When I find a genre or a medium that doesn’t immediately grab me, I try to make an effort to find that other ten percent that isn’t – and frequently, though not inevitably, I will discover a New Favorite Thing.
ok sturgeon
Ted Sturgeon wrote "Amok Time,” the episode of Star Trek that created “fuck or die.” We owe Ted Sturgeon EVERYTHING.
SO TRUE
also
a weird little connection-data-cluster from my pattern recognizer:
-Sturgeon’s Law is that 90% of everything is crap
-the dystopian story “Harrison Bergeron” was about a society where equality was achieved by identifying all people with above-average abilities in any area and “handicapping” them down to normal level
-Therefore, a crossover of the two– “Harrison Stergeron”– would be a world where the abnormal 10% of everything that is not crap would be forcibly edited to crap level.
-you might think this would be regrettable.
-However, you must consider that “Harrison Stergeron” spelled backwards would be “no regrets no sirrah.”
