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jhetley ([personal profile] jhetley) wrote2007-03-29 09:15 am
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Ah, the joys of the entrenched power elite

(Or why I'd never want to be an officer of the SFWA)

Been watching, with the sort of curious fascinating horror of a train wreck at a distance, "discussions" on some of the private SFWA message boards. Lots of bottles of 100-proof Old Animosity being passed around and emptied and smashed in the fireplace.

And they wonder why they have trouble getting people to run for office.
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[identity profile] sclerotic-rings.livejournal.com 2007-03-29 02:02 pm (UTC)(link)
Hey, if these people didn't nurse their grudges and train them and teach them to sic random passersby, they wouldn't have any reason to live. Personally, with that thought in mind, I now want to design a machine that erases grudges.

[identity profile] tnh.livejournal.com 2007-03-30 02:50 pm (UTC)(link)
SFWA feuds are always like that. Scalzi's actually raised the level of this one.

[identity profile] jhetley.livejournal.com 2007-03-30 11:39 pm (UTC)(link)
It appears to be a form of ritual cannibalism, ingrained in the society.

I admit to ambivalence on Scalzi. He didn't know the elections were uncontested until he opened the ballot?
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