S. Andrew Swann on SF & Politics
S. Andrew Swann had an interesting post recently (checks again: well, not all that recently, but my RSS feed coughed it up last night) about politics in SF.
He's noticed something that I think is a particular case of a general rule (maybe I can formulate it into Wheeler's Second Law* sometime) -- that writers must believe that the kind of work that they're doing, that they most want to do, is at least important and vital. More often than not, they actually believe that what they do and love is the absolute core of their particular field. This is healthy for the individual writer, but can be less useful when you get a number of writers doing different things together...
