Postby Technomancer » Tue Dec 02, 2003 5:20 pm
I've seen the first volume, it's pretty good. I'll get around to renting the next sometime later. I'm not sure if I'd really call it Lord of the Flies in space though. The only real similarity that I can think of is that it involves a lot of young people who have suddenly lost adult supervision and need to survive on their own. From what I've seen of it the series however, I'd say that Golding's novel contains vastly different themes about the nature of self and society than does Ryvius.
The scientific method," Thomas Henry Huxley once wrote, "is nothing but the normal working of the human mind." That is to say, when the mind is working; that is to say further, when it is engaged in corrrecting its mistakes. Taking this point of view, we may conclude that science is not physics, biology, or chemistry—is not even a "subject"—but a moral imperative drawn from a larger narrative whose purpose is to give perspective, balance, and humility to learning.
Neil Postman
(The End of Education)
Anti-intellectualism has been a constant thread winding its way through our political and cultural life, nurtured by the false notion that democracy means that my ignorance is just as good as your knowledge
Isaac Aasimov