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Saturday, April 28, 2018

28/04/2018

Tuesday, April 3, 2018

NOT PORN

A Note for Myself

Once your fictional World is stablished, once the basic premisses of it are in place, the characters more or less clear in your mind, stop for a momment.

Before you write, every time you do that, consider that: your fictional World is fictional to you, but not for your characters. For your characters that is the one and only real World. Does not matter the gender: comedy, porn, adventure, etc. Once the premisses you gave to your fictional World are in place follow the consequences, and keep in mind that people born and raised on this World will base their decisions and concepts not on our real World but in their real World.

Consider that scene: the President of United States and the President of Russia are talking inside a room, they are making a serious effort to avoid World War III which if happen will be the last one. Somewere outside the room there is a sniper with his rifle looking by the telescopic mire, waiting to shoot the US President in the head. (just to avoid unnecessary noise let's say it's not D. Trump, let's say it is the first President elected after Trump's second term: no matter who is the person)

If the sniper achieve his goal not only one chief of state will die, but probably every one else will die a few days after that. You know all that, and not only you know all that but you also are a US army officer. You have a clear shot, impossible to miss and your chief of state may leave the room at any time. Given all that you would:

1. Allow the sniper's Russian friend to talk, trying to convince his fellow to give up for as long as necessary. Even if that means the sniper will have his chance to kill the President and start WW III, you must respect his right and trust your enemie to build a better world (despite the fact that you actually do not trust your enemie, and for fair reasons. For instance: by now they have killled many of your friends and parents, your people have killed many amoung them as well)

2. Disarm the sniper at any cost, killing him if necessary, as fast as possible, before even blink.

I saw that scene not long ago on Netflix.

Of course: the President of US was a tribal king, the army officer was a important warrior commander loyal to him, the room was a cave, but the extinction of human kind was still the extinction of human kind. The Russians, by the way, were the leading characters in the story.

The character followed option 1.

All that was a cheap way to create a opportunity for a speech, after that speech the sniper give up and do not kill anyone. But before that he get chance, while his friend talks and the lady with a bow and arrow do nothing. Even if the speech was original and intelligent (it is neither) that scene would still be an insult to anyone seem it. The kind of insult I hope never make writing a story.

If you have nations, tribal, national, or any other, and your nations have chiefs, then probably people will take the attempts to assassinate their national chiefs about as serious as US military takes the attempts of assassination against US President. Will possibly exist circunstances when, by the rules of this nation, one can or even is supposed to try to kill the head of State, that will not be assassination, but except under such circunstances one would take seriously the subject.

Forget the national element. Would a mere cop anywere choose to stop and talk to a sniper anywere, allowing him to aim nameless people walking on street, holping he can convince to fellow to not kill anyone? What kind cop would do that, if is possible to stop the sniper by force, disarm him, and let the talk for when no one is in risk to be killed by a shot?

I do not care if the tribal warrior king lives or dies, in his fictional World. To me he is only a fictional character. However, to some warrior near to him, inside the same fictional World, his survival has more meaning than the death of some real John doe can have for any real cop on real World.

Almost any group will care more about the survival of their own members than they care about the survival of outsiders. Even allies, to not even mention enemies. Is always possible to make a group which does not fall under that general trend, but do takes some explanation, and brings some problems. No one will consider other tribe as more important, and respect the freedom of choice (shoot or not shoot) of any member of this tribe more than the life of just any person in his own tribe; at least not just because the other tribe is the tribe were the leading characters are.

Once your fictional World is in place, and you have the basic premisses of it, be consistent. Respect the logic consequences born from the rules chosen by you at the beggining. Find your story inside it, because that is the only way to respect the people following your fiction.

Saturday, March 31, 2018

A EXTINÇÃO DA HUMANIDADE DESDE UM PONTO DE VISTA ABSOLUTAMENTE LEIGO

Nós estamos cultivando uma super bactéria, resistente á todos os tipos de contramedidas, que cedo ou tarde se espalhará pelo planeta. Isso nós podemos evitar, ainda, basta que abandonemos o insensato hábito de reunir vários doentes em um mesmo edifício.

Mas uma pedra cairá dos céus, no mínimo vinte vezes maior e mais pesada que o monte Fuji. E o grande Yellowstone despertará, ou algum outro vulcão menor mas equivalente para todos os fíns práticos. E a respeito desses fatos nada podemos fazer.

Depois dessas coisas terem ambas acontecido, não uma mas muitas vezes cada uma, a nossa estrela de referência vai explodir. E todas as evidências dessas coisas desaparecerão na explosão.

Muito tempo depois disso a nossa inteira Galáxia vai dar PT, de um geito ou de outro, e nenhum seguro cobrirá essa perda.

Não temos certesa de que o Universo em si mesmo terminará, pode ser que ele continue para sempre, se renovando, inalgurando novas galáxias a cada falência das antigas. Então, em tese, a espécie humana poderia durar eternamente. Bastaria para isso que consequissemos nos espalhar para além do nosso planeta, e para além da nossa Galáxia, rápido o suficiente.

Exceto que até aqui estivemos esquecendo que somos fruto de um aglomerado de ácidos em constante mudança. A humanidade está mudando, e isso inevitavemente implica que cedo ou tarde ela terá se transformado em alguma espécie evidentemente não humana. Nossos descendentes poderão nascer com novos órgãos que os tornarão capazes de processos cognitivos tão superiores aos nossos quanto os nossos são superiores aos de um pardal; e continuar nessa direção, chegando a um tempo quando o fruto genético da espécie humana será tão mais complexo do que nós quanto nós somos mais complexos do que a ameba média. E/ou nossos descendentes podem perder a capacidade de falar, se tornar uma espécie qualquer de macaco aquático, e acabar extintos por aquela pedra enorme que cairá do céu. E/ou, porque as espécies vivas às vezes se bifurcam e uma delas pode gerar muitas outras ao longo de algum tempo.

É certo que poderíamos, em tese, garantir a continuidade da humanidade contra as forças indiferentes e impessoais da Genética. Para isso bastaria que nossos descendentes mais próximos adotassem um fanatismo eugenista absoluto e o mantivessem pela eternidade. Isso, e apenas isso, garantiria a preservação da nossa espécie tal como nós a conhecemos; ou mais exatamente tal como esses nossos descendentes a conhecerão.

Só que nada disso importa. Porque nada disso vai acontecer durante o nosso tempo de vida. E nem durante o tempo de vida das vinte gerações humanas ainda por nascer.

Nenhum de nós, falando francamente, dá a mínima para o que vai acontecer com a espécie humana depois de oito gerações de seus próprios descendentes. Caso para impedir que o seu décimo terceiro descendente em linha reta fosse extinto junto com o resto da humanidade bastasse você acordar meia hora mais cedo na segunda quarta-feira de Maio pelos próximos cinco anos, então o seu décimo terceiro descendente seria extinto com o resto da humanidade, com toda a certeza.

Concluíndo, a extinção da humanidade não nos diz respeito.