So just finished the novel Enders Game by Orson Scott Card. It is quite a harrowing piece of lit with very disturbing subtexts on the nature of war and the dehumanization of training etc and the way we distance people from the responsibilities of their action in war etc. Will see the film in the next few days. Also a lot on the nature of being a sociopath (in a disturbingly Ayn Rand sort of style quite lauds it in politics and business, without even Machiavellis justification of ethics re: the means and the need to represent those you care for in a ruthless world, rather it just has a genera;l perception that those people in business tend to lead to positive results by distracting them from torturing small animals). Some quite odd views of gender in there too, leaning to a weird sort of biological determinism with exceptions for ladies in the military. On a trivial note for a guy who is a very outspoken in his homophobia and anti-gay activism his novel is one of the more homoerotic and ho-yay filled books Ive read in quite a while, though often these kinds of books are. (albeit in a very repressed sort of martial/patriarchal way) It is bizarrely hypocritical for an outspoken homophobe to write though. You know like when Ender meets another book he thinks A boy stood there, tall and slender, with beautiful black eyes and slender lips that hinted at refinement. I would follow such beauty, said something inside Ender. Women are weird distant things to be thought of from afar and kept from information and are weak whereas true companionship for these isolated young men is other men with shades of physical as well as emotional connection.
Posted on: Sat, 17 May 2014 16:09:54 +0000
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