I know nobody reads these and pretty much I am tossing bottles to the sea but have a most excellent 2016.
Party on, dudes.

I wish you all a very happy and nice Christmas to you all, that those who doesn't have the chance to be with their families today may at least enjoy them with friends.
And a very prosper new year 2016.

After the low quality fest that the prequel trilogy was, no doubt that something as average as this Episode VII shines as a super nova in this fatigued franchise.
As a distorted reflection of Episode IV, this film basically offers the same that Lucas did back in the late 70s: we have Tattooine with a different name (covered with junk from the original trilogy), a XXL Death Star straight out of space opera anime from the 80s, a female Luke Skywalker with an even more miserable background, the comic relief droid, a bad-guy-turn-to-good as Han Solo was in Episode IV, an Emperor which feels like a bootleg Sauron (played by Andy Serkis) that does have his Space Nazguls (seen in the Flashback), a more pathetic than intimidating pseudo-Darth Vader (the scene in which Darth Vader's melted mask does its cameo could had Ben Solo listening Crawling on my Skin while cutting his forearm as he ask his grandfather for evil guidance), a female Yoda (which, like many things in this movie, is up to eleven since she has been around for one thousand years), the mentor figure dying at the hands of the villain, the McGuffin everyone is looking for (in Episode IV was the Death Star schematics, in this Luke's GPS)...
We are all aware that Lucas' first movie was basically a pastiche, a space opera rendition of Akira Kurosawa's Hidden Fortress heavily influenced by the Flash Gordon serials pre-TV era and John Ford's westerns presented through the Hero's Journey from Campbell's monomyth theory, Abrahams basically did a carbon copy of this first film that appeals to a zeit geist too over stimulated for have a movie with a pace less fast than a rollercoaster with a flux capacitor. The narrative quality is at the same tier as fan fiction, Rey is a character forced on the viewer as much as the constant references to the original trilogy (something which makes the film feel dishonest, as if afraid of letting us stop and think) without much chances to grow on us as a young Luke struggling with his overprotective uncle and aunt before the adventure calls on his door and a skill with the force that put the one of her grandfather to shame like if this franchise was Dragon Ball.
The fan was starved for quality in a franchise even more derelict that Star Trek, Abrahams was aware of this as much as he was about how vital is to appeal the veterans more than the kids. A young Lucas made a movie which is a love letter to the cinematographic pop culture he enjoyed during his childhood and formative years at college, Abrahams did a product for re-start a business and disguise it as a nostalgia trip which is going to make it age poorly.
Still, could had been worse.
Could had been another Episode 1.

Today getting into animation and illustration is not as time taxing as it was back then thanks to technology, but here you have a lesson from a very young Terry Gilliam explaining how he did his cartoons for a certain comedy TV show in British television:

https://www.youtube.com/embed/xs7WaL44_Iw

Guess which villains are back from your childhood:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HeaugHGd1Kw

I should confess that since 2007 I no longer play video games, if I know about this or that game being the flavor of the month is mostly through osmosis and thanks to youtube longplays sometimes I dwell in them as I still see those as a cultural product and not only a mere entertainment even (like in contemporary cinema and literature) there is plenty of commercial garbage.
Undertale caught me off guard, at first I thought it was just a project fueled by the nostalgia of those who enjoyed Earthbound in their childhood or young ones who re-discovered the game through the emulator community. Far beyond being a re-telling of the cult classic, Undertale is a metanarrative exercise which uses the well know tropes of the RPG genre for tell us a story about morality and ethics that put to shame what the developers of the Bioshock franchise attempted in said series. I am not going to talk about that aspect, which many had already mention already but the factor of innocence in the fairy tale merged with pop culture setting that constitutes the entirety of the game.
First of all, the game main plot is sustained in a very clear position: even with excellent nurture, nature can be a great obstacle in the rising of a child. Is obvious, if you pick the hints scattered through the game world, to tell that the first human child adopted by the monster's queen and king was a misanthropic sociopath, his deviant nature is the detonator of the tragedy which brings us strangers in a strange land a problem to fix (pacifist route)or made even worse (genocide route). Is this tragedy which makes the game mature, no matter if we obtained a happy ending by bringing the monsters to the surface, there is one character which status quo is unbreakable as well as the broken relation between the monster's monarchs. This is a very interesting element considering the "time traveling" nature of this digital adventure, during the game we are taunted if we use our "time travel" for do things which in other games doesn't do have consequences as a reminder that we can't really fix everything in this world as if we were facing a classic Greek tragedy.
What would happen to Oedipus' story if he could "load his game" before killing his father once he knew the truth? Most certainly the plague that scourges the city-state of Tebas would never happen as the gods will not be angered about Oedipus sin of marrying his own mother. Still there is going to be the awareness that Oedipus did that in another timeline, which means the tragedy is somewhat there even there is no true catharsis as its conclusion doesn't become the status quo, making it impossible for be a good dramatic piece as exposed by Aristotle or Nieztche. This is not the same concerning video games, as we are experiencing the story by an avatar, the actions are made by us and not by a third party, so at some level we interiorise them. This interiorisation of our avatar's action is the main source of the guilt a player can feel when reaching the conclusion of the genocide path realizes that he/she is the main villain of a tale which doesn't have any by becoming a monster's monster. We can start the game anew but there is an element which is going to remind us that we killed Toriel, and that precisely is the metanarrative element in the game which makes it perhaps stand over the cult classic its was inspired in first instance.
This aspect of the game could even be used for possible exercises concerning the topics of ethics and morality for teens in a teaching context. If philosophy was introduced into the high school curriculums of some countries, a teacher could use this game as a teaching tool concerning this topic (and even as an introduction to those linked to the concepts I mentioned earlier). This confirms one thing, that video games are finally reaching a maturity as cultural objects.

As some of you who take the time to read my journal entries already know, the last year Christmas Eve supper was (like the rest of the holidays) took a dark turn when my sister had a car accident after buying the food she was going to prepare for say event.
One year later my sister now must face a future being able to use her left arm at its 70% for the rest of her life and possible sequels both neuropathological (memory lost by a blood clot caused by the impact of her skull on the car's crystal) and pathological (PTD). Still, she is alive and today me and my parents will go to her place for have a warm family celebration which couldn't happen in 2013.
I wish you all a merry Christmas, Hanukkah, Quanza or similar celebrations, that you can spend them with your beloved ones because that is what really matters in this time of the year, not the gifts, not the abundant suppers and dinners, but that feeling you belong to somewhere and there is people who care for you. You could give it for granted, that the next morning and the next one you will wake up and they will be still there, but that is an illusion. Tragedy can happen.
And you don't value something really until is gone forever.
For this reason, please, keep arguments to a minimum, don't be selfish, take your time to ask to those members of the family you don't see often during the year about what they had done, what they are doing and what are they projects of future. Remember together the good times and cast a side the bad ones.
There is no better gift than that.

This year telethon in TV3 is dedicated to cardiovascular diseases. Please, be kind and donate so biomedical research can progress:
http://www.tv3.cat/marato/en/donatius

Since this autumn, the gaming company Paizo Publishing has been introducing on the shelves a quite interesting campaign for the sword and sorcery RPG Pathfinder (an iteration of the popular Dungeons & Dragons) named Iron Gods.
Those who are interested into the historiography and study of science-fiction as well as fans which scope goes beyond their zeitgeist are familiar with the concept of "science fantasy", a neologism to address the merging of science fiction with sword and sorcery or wonder literature. Between the Proto-Science fiction and the Golden Age we had the narratives of "exhausted future". Works like Jack Vance's Dying Earth (1950-1984), Clark Ashton Smith's Zothique (1932-1954) or William Hope Hodgson's The House on the Borderland (1908) exposed to the readers far futures in which science and technology, the children of reason, had been dethroned by the offspring of the irrational. As a twist to the third law of Clark (who also explored the "exhausted future" subgenre in The City and the Stars [1956] and Against the Fall of Night [1948]), the perspective on technology as magic is the product of a cultural degeneration and not a plain matter of the tool's efficiency.
Is easy use the facts on Cargo Cults and the ideas of Lewis Mumford for use said concept as the main backbone of a Luddite themed story denouncing the perils of a technocracy fueled by plutocratic interest which goes in detriment of the values linked to humanist meritocracy, in fact, is has become enough common to be consider a cliché mainly concentrated in the "rebellion of the machines" narratives started with the Câpek brothers' R.U.R. [1920] (even if the "robots" of said work are more akin to Frankenstein's monster than to mechanical brutes). Although the concepts found in exhausted futures has brought us interesting works which mainly motivation was the deconstruction of the classic hero, like Gene Wolfe's The Book of the New Sun series (1980-83) or Roger Zelazny's Lord of Light (1967).
Is the topic of religion and also that of Campbellian Hero's journey which establish a bridge between science-fiction and fantasy in these far futures in which characters like Gandalf wouldn't seem out of place. The posthumans on Zelazny's Lord of Light, those posing as the Greek gods in Dan Simmon's Illion series (2003) or even the citizens of Harlan Ellison's The Prowler in the City at the Edge of the World (1967) and Michael Moorcock's The Dances of the End of Time (1980) are in fact a return to the pagan deity (on this topic I recommend reading Merce Eliade's work on the Eternal Return), flawed by its human passions unrestrained by the fragility of the human body and the incapability of full execution of the will.
Back to the campaign published by Paizo we find on a quite interesting scenario, a world which could be consider a standard for the sword and sorcery subgenre, with magic, miracles and spiritual beings performing the will of anthropomorphic deities, finds itself tainted with the presence of a very alien element, a space ship, a product of a world in which magic and the supernatural are non existent. The main antagonist of this campaign is a rogue A.I. with a messiah complex, who as a difference of well know A.I.s from fiction like AM or SHODAN is legitimately a deity capable of bless its followers with divine miracles. Being a RPG, the quality of such scenario, that of sentient beings having to face the horror of a creation (a tool) achieving the deity status even when they are aware mortals can perform such deed, is up to both the players and the GM but sure can increase a lot the narrative experience beyond the mere maniqueist and wish fulfillment discourse of sword and sorcery games heavy dependent on hack ans slash rules.
Unity, the main antagonist of Iron Gods, is not in fact a pagan deity like those the players' characters can worship, in fact, being a creation conceal in a virtual reality has made it quite close to an abrahamic deity: Considers itself the only true god, has a manifest destiny and is detached from the human condition enough for having a paternalist approach to its worshipers. Another aspect which can also be very interesting is the idea of an active punishment performed by the god towards its own prophets which can be quite shocking for characters belonging to a standard sword and sorcery setting. For example, a paladin can fall from grace and end turning into an antipaladin for then be pursued by agents of her former faith for redemption or in case of an evil cleric being converted into the faithful of a good aligned deity having the same situation; the deity never haves a direct intervention unless is something that really disrupts the rules of reality. Unity instead is very capable of punish its own followers directly if they doesn't respect its dogma.
Is quite interesting to see how the "reality" of a world which obeys to "narrativium" (fate does exist, good versus evil is a vital part of existence, there is the certainty of an after life) has to interact with the reality of a world which is dependent on the rational as it is very aware of the meaningless of life and the chaos that is a universe which is slave to entropy. Of course, these topics aren't really in the main text of this campaign, which in fact could be consider below average the standards of well written science-fiction or sword and sorcery as is basically a pastiche of pop culture references (from the now classic module Expedition to the Barrier Peaks to Mad Max) but a good reader of said genres would find those concepts springing in the mind as soon as starts playing it.

There is an old street saying in Spain which could be translated as: "It is sad to ask for charity but is even sadder having to resort to larceny".
Broke as I am I had decided to get rid of some pen and paper RPG material which is just getting covered in dust on my shelves. If you want to know which material is that, just take a look to the pictures in my scraps gallery.
Those who are interested to acquire said material, do please ask me about prices in the comments section of this journal or leave a "comment" in the corresponding picture on the scraps gallery. Of course, if you find the price competitive further questions could be discussed trough skype.
Most of the money earned this way is going to be used for acquire new books for my academic library and also pay new (and old) commissions depicting Wilhelmina and other characters.

Finally found myself with time enough for visualize the anime series Paranoia Agent [Mōsō Dairinin] by Madhouse, directed by the now gone Satoshi Kon (Paprika; Tokyo Godfathers).
Even if the main target of this very acid satire is the Japanese viewers, its message of the toxicity of escapism and lack of maturity for dealing with day to day suffering can be also addressed to the western public. Using elements of jungian psychoanalysis (the collective unconscious) and those of bhuddism (introspection and meditation to accept suffering) for tell us the story of a blow out of proportions lie which ends blurring the line between reality and fiction, the series criticizes the constant need for escapism Japanese suffer in the contemporary world. Be this the illusion of success (Episode 2), the idealization of the past (episode 11), fantasies of realization (episode 5) or just plain auto termination (the hysterical slapstick episode 8), all the characters are examples of those demons which torment the standard Japanese citizen as well as the western civilization citizen. One of the episodes which called me most the attention is third, the one dealing with a woman with multiple personality disorder who at day is a shy and plenty of gravitas university professor while during night becomes pure unleashed libido, somehow my activities on-line concerning sexual RPs made me feel uncomfortably related to the situation that character lives during the episode and perhaps some other persons who are avid sexual RPers who real life day to day demands them maintain an ethos. In fact, this made me think the escapism what is sexual rpers sometimes make furries lost certain notions of logic and a good example of this is the recent interest for the character Rocket Raccoon.
Leaving Paranoia Agent to a side and being someone who still consumes comics I had been familiar with the character since the British writer Dan Abnett offered us the space opera saga Annihilation, the true start of the contemporary Guardians of the Galaxy and which saved obscure characters like Rocket Raccoon. It shocked me a character which has been popular for Marvel Comics fans since 2004 now ten years later has been assimilated in the list of mainstream iconic characters of the furry fandom, like Felicia or Fox McCloud, but of course, the main reason is because Rocket Raccoon was a comic book character and now is a film character. This is worry some for two reasons:
-People in the fandom are too busy or too lazy to even read comic books.
-Most of the people who constitute the fandom aren't really into that kind of media except that which is mainstream because their main interest is sexual.
The fandom started mainly as a group of animators and artist in general as well as fans of funny animals, those who grew up with Disney and Warner Brothers cartoons, but seems with each passing year it has become a source of toxic escapism. I am not talking about those with artistic talent, those can be excuse according to the existentialist philosophy of Albert Camus (1913-1960). Those artist do really enjoy a more productive and less toxic aspect of the fandom, even if their art is sexual is an act of rebellion of a mechanical absurd existence which is going to end with the extinction of oneself and in said act they find a meaning to that condition. Like the characters of Paraonia Agent, the absorption of Rocket Raccoon and its sexualization responds to a compulsive need to find new toys, new elements of escapism trough exorcising sexual frustration. Being sex purely mechanical it doesn't matter how many new kinks, new toys, you add to the game, it will become sooner or later dull. This never ending escape from oneself trough a sexual avatar just escalates as time pass, I had witnessed people starting with quite average characters when they established contact with the roleplaying community of the furry fandom and end with sexual monstrosities. Like Lil' Slugger, the main antagonist of Paranoia Agent, this escalation, the growing of importance of the sexual avatar, obeys the need of never face the reason of existential angst the player is facing in real life, because there is no act of rebellion, there is no creation, which offers a true meaning to the oneself.
Furry artist always keep a status quo concerning their characters and their art, because that act of creation offers them more relief than the most kinkier roleplay they could experience. Is a representation of their will of existence not a rejection of it. Same happens with the writers, the musicians, any who does a true act of creation and does not waste his or her time with simulation, what is the true nature of the sexual roleplay. Simulation, not creation.
Of course one could point art, writing and music are also simulations, but their process turn them into expressions of a creative will with intention of perpetuity (and by extension improvement) when the act of simulation that is sexual roleplay is ephemeral and it fades into nothing. This brings frustration when there is no partner to perform such act, when the artist only will suffer the cold grip of frustration when a mental block impairs him of do his will. The individual act of drawing a pornographic picture is far more satisfying than having a roleplay with someone who is unable to deliver a four lines post.
Even if this is obvious we should admit we have to acquire a conscience about this angst linked to the act of escapism.

"Then, tomorrow was another day"
Or it wasn't? The 20th century is becoming more and more distant as we progress in this new millennium. I would like to wish you all a happy new year, but is hard to do with what is happening in Europe with the recession, seems uncertainty is going to be a constant, so the only thing I can do is suggest you to use this new year for grow in knowledge for become more wise and perhaps more able to achieve happiness.
As in certain cult movie characters said:
"-Be excellent one with the another!
-Party on, dudes!".

This year has been the first I couldn't celebrate Xmas as other years.
The past Friday the 20th my sister, who six years ago got removed her thyroidal gland by a cancer which could had metastasized into her ganglia, had a car accident.
Since the total removal of her thyroidal gland she usually made comments about losing her perception of reality or had lapses of memory and seems she had one (according to the police) of those while driving trough the highway from doing her groceries bought so she could prepare this Christmas' eve supper (which is called in Spain Nochebuena). She miraculously survived the direct impact with a track, the car when completely wrecked to the point it was necessary to open it like a can by two teams of firemen, her right arm was almost turn into pulp and had a head commotion. Her arm was reconstructed in a nine hours micro surgery intervention which lasted from Friday's evening to Saturday's early morning.
My sister was in the intense cares units, critical, until this Thursday. Now she is in the semi-critical trauma floor of the hospital, being observed about a blood clot in her frontal cortex, according to the medics said blood clot is not growing so there is no hemorrhage but they still have to observe if it is decreases or just gets stagnated. No medic has specified in which lobe of the brain said blood clot is found.
The only thing I can do is wait.

Merry Christmas to you all and happy new year 2014.

2013.
The number thirteen always had dark connotations for those who are superstitious, so let's do an entertaining exercise four our amusement.
Pick your copy of the I Ching, sum all the numbers of this year (2+1+3) and look for the significance of the result in said book.
If you don't have a copy of said book, the result will point you to Ta Yu or to K'an.

What always astonished me about furry subculture is it the fact how it started basically as a group of people interested into funny animals animation for became into a sexual themed subculture involving LGBT friendly politics and a whole artistic market focused on porn. How this happened? Is a hint something is wrong with western culture? The philosopher Herbert Marcuse exposed this question (the possibles ways western civilization could enter into decadence) very well in his Eros and civilization, saying sex could be used in social engineering for manipulate the social expectations of an collective or class for fulfill the agendas of another group in possession of the cultural agents, but is not the case with the furry "fandom". There is no conspiracy nor any social agent which is using the furry subculture for "stain" the mind of those members of our society which are susceptible to sex linked stimuli, I think the sexuality topics pouring inside the furry fandom are a symptom of how this contemporary culture focus into consumerism and monetary gain has stagnated more noble ideals and create a general frustration and need of escapism.
If we add to this the fact there are social groups who live outside of the "normal" society, then we have a powerful subcultural concoction which is being indirectly counter cultural.
That is one side of the coin, the other side says is just a group of people which have too much free time and enough money to invest in sexual role plays and pornographic art aimed to wish fulfillment: You had a shitty day at work because your boss pointed out how incompetent you are or tell you about a mistake in public? Play a scene where you are a dragon growing bigger in size, muscle and more endowed and literary fuck the world, You are tired of people who are illiterate and vulgar? Just be an apex predator and eat them, turning them into the shit they are...and so on, a behavior I must confess disgust me.
I don't know which side of the coin is the right one.

I almost never use my journal here in FA, but today I need it for tell about something what happened recently. This morning my brother in law called from his home for tell us he had to call an ambulance for my sister, because she spend all the night complaining about abdominal pains and getting worse to the point she starts to loose her conscience.
Knowing she haves a delicate health condition related to her two years ago intervention for get rid of a cancer on her thyroidal gland we feared the worse case scenario. So my parents decided to go to my sister's home for take care of my three years old niece and my brother in law followed the ambulance into the hospital.
I got stuck in my parents home, because I am recovering from an intestinal flu and somebody had to inform my other sister about how my sister condition progressed. After hours of waiting my father called a hour ago and told me the medics finally discovered the main reason of my sister's situation was a inner bleeding induced by an atypical gestation and she is now in the surgery room, at the hands of the surgeons.
I hope everything go good, because I don't know what would happen if things decide to take a darker turn.
I don't know if somebody is going to read this entry or care but I needed to write it for the sake of say: Marian, por favor, curate y ponte bien. Te esperamos todos.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oGG8.....p;feature=fvst
2010 leave us and now we enter into a new year which for me symbolizes the true start to the first decade of this new century.
I wish you all this new year be a better one compared to the recent ones, full of fear and uncertainty about the future of so many countries and the people who live in them. Even being aware life is a river which we can't control at all is always good wish good luck and best intentions to others in this new reality where individualism and isolationism seems to be the norm.
Happy 2011 to all.
As someone said in a cult movie long ago: "Be excellent one another".

Enjoying my first weekend of Semana santa holidays in the usual worthless and unproductive way I do recently (the hard life of the humanist, too many time dedicated to the books can finally maim your social relations) I was surfing FA in search of porn or art I didn't see before.
Suddenly my ocular globes caught a vision which make them melt on my eye sockets, Ganador posing and showing his work out results on his account. My mind desperate to don't loose more sanity tried to evade the inevitable thoughts of comparison but was too late, I used my hands (my eyes melted, so I was blind) to touch my body which thanks to the inactivity of the last months loosed great part of the volume and definition I achieved during the last years. Envy exploded like an hydrogen bomb and after it's detonation the dust clouds of self compassion covered the sky of my brain. When everything was clear I remember the Stupidity theory of Cipolla, which in is said there are different roles for a being in society being the most dangerous the aforementioned stupid, however there was also the incautious, the one who damages himself and benefits others.
A wide grin was drawn on my face, soon a thread was posted in the /fit/ channel of 4chan. I was just curious to see the reaction of those who are always talking about their progress concerning body sculpting. For my surprise, the thread become soon a troll fest where Ganador's body showed to the superior to the usual visitors of that 4chan's channel.

I just could remember a quote from an old Asterix animation movie said by Julius Caesar:
"They are gods, and against gods you cannot do anything".

Is not being a good start of a new decade to me.
I don't like to introduce elements of my personal life into the fandom, knowing very well the bad reputation I have but I need to share this.
Last weekend I discovered my parents are in a financial situation, my mother's pension for her fibromialgia is going to be revoked and she is 64 with still three years to go at a professional level for obtain the minimum social care help for jubilated people. My father's pension is close to don't be much able to pay all the bills, included their home where I still live (and we have seven years to go for end the "hipoteca").
All this information was drop to me after I confessed I have two years to go (if everything goes well) for obtain my degree in humanities. I'm 25 years old and still unemployed, and with the recession plus the immobiliary crisis is extremely hard to find a job now for contribute at home.
There is also the fear to lost my father in a upcoming intervention for substitute great part of his talon, he is 67 years old and everybody in my family depends economically of his pension.
From my side, I didn't confess university doesn't goes well at all, I still have two "asignaturas" which I still repeating since the beginning of my career and seems I'm putting myself in a dangerous condition by the "university permanence regime of 2004/2005".
I must confess I never felt such fear and worry for my family's future and myself. I don't know I would do if things get worse, so I started to look for a job which I could combine with my classes and study hard for get rid of these "asignaturas" which can put me out of the university and waste five years of my life.
However, if things get worse I don't know I would do, so, I want to apology to everyone I hurt in the past with my lies and trolling.
The furry fandom (and specially the macrophile.com community) didn't deserve such behavior from my side when I meet people which just wanted to be friendly and nice. I let the worse of my take the control and waste the chance to meet wonderful and talented people from beyond my country which now hate and despise me.
I also wasted my real life being a victim of the family issues which bring us to such a situation, the fear hold me of doing anything as a kid and as a teenager.
I'm so sorry for be such a terrible person, for disappoint so many people and for don't do the right things.
I just wish you all the best luck in life, not success, but true happiness of knowing you had enjoyed life and also did something worthy, something which you would be remembered by somebody.
My apologies to Susandeer, DNApalmhead, Bennie, Coug'r, Dragonien, Twitch, Airlin, Gideon, Wolfman-Al, Rattus, Zukezorin Ransom...
You didn't deserve to suffer my shit all these years both in the boards and in the Mirc channels.

Hoy me gustaría compartir mi visión personal sobre algunos autores del genero fantástico, en pos de cambiar algunas ideas y concepciones sobre aquellos que son considerados miembros de la comunidad "geek/nerd". Principalmente por que la visión que se tiene de estos des del exterior es negativa, ya que se les considera principalmente una masa de personas sin ningún criterio e incapaces de ofrecer nada original en comparación con la subcultura fur.
Yo, personalmente, me considero un geek, alguien que disfruta de aquellos productos de la cultura popular (o no tan popular y mas propios de la subcultura) relacionados con la ficción especulativa o post-romántica.
Debido a mis ideales políticos, estrechamente relacionados con la izquierda, des de joven siempre me mostré interesado en el subgénero literario de la ciencia ficción, principalmente por su gran valor humanístico. A diferencia de la fantasía épica, heredera de las ranciedades del post-romanticismo propio de miembros conservadores de la sociedad, que nunca llegaron a acostumbrarse al ritmo acelerado del mundo liberal, la ciencia ficción de calidad podría tratar sobre temas sociales con una prisma que estimulaba sobremanera las esperanzas y miedos del genero humano en la mente del lector.
Es aquí donde un servidor ofrece su primer paralelismo, Isaac Asmiov y J.R.R. Tolkien, el primero un matemático, el segundo un filólogo, ambos pilares de sus respectivos subgeneros.
Asimov fue miembro de los Futurians, por allá los años entre la década de los treinta y cuarenta del pasado siglo, grupo de aficionados y escritores de ciencia ficción interesados en los conceptos a desarrollar en las políticas de izquierdas (principalmente el comunismo). Con conceptos a desarrollar, me refiero ante todo a los brutales cambios que la sociedad fomentada en los ideales liberales de los dos siglos anteriores al veinte podría sufrir en caso de la aplicación de las teorías políticas de Marx o de Bakunin.
Tolkien formo parte de un grupo perteneciente a la élite burguesa y nobiliaria de la Inglaterra rural, extremadamente influenciados por los conceptos del romanticismo conservador y que principalmente buscaban la creación de una mitología nueva para los Ingleses que no depredara de los mitos arturicos (ejecutados por un monje de origen francés), celtas (propios de los irlandeses) o nórdicos (propios de los invasores normandos).
Si tenemos en cuenta estos antecedentes, e indagamos mas profundamente en ellos, podemos apreciar el por que de serie de cuestiones relacionadas con la falta de unidad entre los escritores de fantasía heroica o épica; o por otro lado, la buena adaptación e impacto de la ciencia ficción en la cultura popular y académica.
Con esta breve explicación, señoras y señores, quiero dar a entender, que un buen geek analiza las raíces y temas que un escritor que sea clave para un genero, sobretodo en pos de saber si esa persona realmente tenia algo que decir o si sus ideales difieren por completo de la concepción que la masa tiene del mismo. Ergo, el individuo acontece debido a un criterio y opinión formados a través de la investigación relacionada no tan solo con la literatura comparada, sino de otros campos relacionados con el humanismo contemporáneo.