Isaac Asimov, greatest sci-fi writer yet

There have been many great science-fiction writers. The golden age, the birth of Hard sf had many great writers like John Campbell,Robert Heinlein and many more . The greatest writer for me however is undoubtedly Isaac Asimov. He was essentially a claustophilic, aviophobic coot who was born in the Soviet Union. When his parents emigrated to the United States. Isaac (three years old at the time) stowed away in their baggage. He has been an American citizen since the age of eight.

At the age of nine, he found the love of his life (in the inanimate sense) when he discovered his first science-fiction magazine. By the time he was eleven, he began to write stories, and at eighteen, he actually worked up the nerve to submit one. It was rejected. After four long months of tribulation and suffering, he sold his first story and, thereafter, he never looked back.

Isaac Asimov was unlike any other writer in his age in that he used real life scientific truths to think of introspective and intriuging possibilities for the future and that in almost all his science fiction works, he used these to build up a universe, with such interesting and intricate technological, social, political structures that till today, many authors still use his fictional universe in their works(the three laws of robotics,positronic brain, the galactic empire,e.t.c.). He invented the term robotics, Psychohistory(which is an actual study), wrote over 500 pieces of work, won over 20 different awards and had 14 honor doctorates. His foundation series and the robot series still are the greatest works of fiction to date, though some may say that other title like the lord of the rings fiction are better or maybe David weber's honorverse build a greater story, I fervently disagree.

Here is a Quote from one of his robot series books, Robots and Empires

“My death, Daneel,” he said, “is not important. No individual death among human beings is important. Someone who dies leaves his work behind and that does not entirely die. It never entirely dies as long as humanity exists. --Do you understand what I’m saying?”

Daneel said, “Yes, Partner Elijah.”

“The work of each individual contributes to a totality and so becomes an undying part of the totality. That totality of human lives--past and present and to come--forms a tapestry that has been in existence now for many tens of thousands of years and has been growing more elaborate and, on the whole, more beautiful in all that time. Even the Spacers are an offshoot of the tapestry and they, too, add to the elaborateness and beauty of the pattern. An individual life is one thread in the tapestry and what is one thread compared to the whole?

“Daneel, keep your mind fixed firmly on the tapestry and do not let the trailing off of a single thread affect you. There are so many other threads, each valuable, each contributing--”

Adult stuff

It is a shame that I am still a virgin.Due to the haphazard habitation pattern my family had even in our home country, I was unable to establish any relations substantial enough to provide physical relations. And the social atmosphere in U.S.A was quite alien and frightening to me, so I generally avoided it. In light of these fact my thought on the overall gender placement and attitude in society might be abit mysogynistic, but I think that I speak some truth.

What is the American dream, what is the ideal dream. For me before the onset of the perplexity associated with adolescence, My aspirations were very wild. One day I was considering my engineering career while the very next day assessing the capabilities of ninjutsu in modern day life. When I experienced the mental, physical and sexual upsets of puberty coupled with the expectations and needs of a young adult. The flighty ambition of my youth was curbed.

It is at this stage in many people's life's that their goals are set. The aspirations of a man or woman whatever they may be blossom or die in adolescence. This is where men are broken and turned into husk for relegation of genealogy or decide to live and fulfill their emulations, the birth or death of the gentleman. It is unlikely to happen in childhood as sexuality and parentage do not come into account for life dreams, as such it is not common place for a child talking about living a peaceful unsurprising life to work, make children and retire. What is it then that can make a vibrant young man or woman with dreams of conquering the world into a reserved tool that only talks about retiring in florida to a life of sunbathing and skinny dipping at 45 years of age? This is the ultimate of bending over and taking loserdom in the rear and it happens in so many lives . No life experience or obscure emotion can cause such a change in so many people in the world so much, One of the main causes of this has to be the draws of that come with sexual maturity (girlfriends,desire for children etc).The birth of the captain-save-a-hoe in each of us


When most people think of redirection of vigor due to sexuality, they think of the woman or man as only a sexual distraction, but what i fear is the curling away of ambition and motivation that is brought forth by the concentration to the tasks of maintaining relations, reproduction and/or rearing of children, The toll on one's mind and body by adult life, on your strive(the effect of intimate relations, interpersonal , children etc on your career,dreams and other things you individually strive for) This is partly due to effectual animisms (lust,eroticism,analism ,e.t.c.) but a lot of this due to the sheer amount of energy needed for the task. I am sure that even feminist might agree that the transformation from woman to mother is not proactive to the ambitions and dreams of others around them. I know a woman who would have gone to college if it weren't for a child she got, I know dozens of guys who give up career opportunities for unwarranted parental reasoning, I know another woman who would still be running for senator if it weren't for her marriage. This girl who I went with to community college for an automotive course has retreated to an obsure body shop even when she had a prospective job at a racing shop in another town just to please her 'man', dudes giving up college,tools, business opportunities all to somehow advance the causes of the nuclear family. Evidence of this egnima pervades language, culture and philosophy almost everywhere. Gossip talk always refers to entering relationships with wording like 'snagging a man' or 'capturing a lady', In the case of objects or other ambitions pertaining with marriage, we see a pronounced intractableness when object are in question as in the case of sports cars, clothes, hobbies e.t.c. Even the mindset put in most unions is marriage first then everything else e.g. I might be the president of the U.S.A but my marriage (and then God!) comes first.

There is no concencus on the definition of the word gentleman. Talk to a feminist and they abhor the word as if the gentleman was born to cater to some body of doctrine expounding theories of feminine weakness. Talk to some women and the “gentleman” is a treated as a rare commodity in this harsh ongoing world. Basic Morality, incentives for civility, the knightly values and vague romanticism concepts might have a lot to do with the label of gentleman but the a vital concept of the meaning attached to this word is the fallibility of any male sentiment towards female sentiment. The endearment of the attachments to interest of a sexual partner. This is the grave criticism I and many others have with basic ideology surrounding the platonic romantic attachments that society associate to definitions of companionship or love entailed in meaning of gentlemanship, they almost always illogically endear themselves towards irrational hedonistic affection seeking feelings with an endpoint advocating surrealist escapist presentism. It robs ones self of dreams and goals of the future and replaces them with an insipid allusions of reality laking vision or substance. It simply engenders ones mind to the lameness of thought that defines the people who are losing or have lost the fire in their belly i.e. the sunbathers in Florida or in other words people who are losing or have lost the readiness to fight with energy and determination for what they believe is the right direction of their life.

This is something that should be watched for, the endangerment of one's envisionment of his or her personal future. I do not want my dreams and visions of my future to go down the drain all due to some emotion that nobody really understands or can quantify. Biological science views love as a mammalian drive like thirst or hunger, however psychology attributes it more to a quality linking it with intimacy,commitment and passion, theologians view it as something caused by god and most people just avoid defining it since they do not want to understand it, and since it is parcel of their daily frugal lives, they just roll with it. I want to acquire sexual,proliferational and emotional satisfaction from the partner of my choosing without messing with my will or without a change in direction of my life outlook.

This is the death of the gentleman, the birth of pimping or playerism as I use these words today. The philosophy that says hopes, visions and dreams should outlast any love interests and emotions present in ones life. I am bound to get a lot of criticism because this goes against the basic tenets of the Romantic movement associating happiness with absence of critical thought, or maybe because I am a virgin, or maybe ingrained logic dictates that my philosophy goes against a harmless,loving and carefree philosophy of love that promotes peace and happiness, or maybe because intuition lead to think that the needs of instinctual commitments towards mating must be more important than any individual concepts or maybe again because I am a virgin.

However I disagree with this, No romanticist sentiment should stop me from accomplishing my goals or crush my hopes or destroy my dreams. The “love is noble and inherently good” argument is bullshit! It might seem totally Ok from a romantic standpoint to discount the women and men physically, mentally and corporeally harmed due to concepts of love which are built by irrationality i.e. religious theology,vanity in media, mindless emotion, e.t.c. And just 'go with it' i.e. this irrationality. But from a logical standpoint the harm these viewpoints have does is not seemingly worth it.

Many might debate this, there is a mysticism surrounding love such that if romantics are asked about such problems with the their theories of love,they might bring arguments saying that true love does not detract from personal life.You could point to real examples but if these 'philosophers of love' are asked about this inconsistency, they might say that this or that is not true love but you need to remember that there is no universal definition of love, these ideas are part of the problematic relationship complex that has bugged humanity for a long time, never rationalizing only following mass trend with regard to relationships. The instinctual commitments towards propagation of the human race have never been as important as to ignore ones dreams of the future, Indeed the two usually almost go together as many plans for one's future involve children. The thing that destroys our plans for time to come thereafter is the attachment to the opposite sex in these matters. Aren't matters of Child raising and Love not separate? Is it really imperative for the crushing embrace of irrational, hedonistic, mystic and embolistic love to hinder child fostering or even emotional relationships?

I say no! In any of my emotional relationships to come, I will and must always remain pimping. I really think that one can be emotionally attached to someone without sallying away from your future or wanted destiny. For it is unimaginable for me for my goals and dreams which I choose not to disclose in this essay to die off no matter what. Some may say that these theories of mine are due to my virginity but I intend to test these ideas by ridding myself of this virgin label post haste!