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NaNoWriMo Prep: Dirty Pop, the Record Companies, and the "Law" of Social Darwinism

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Oct 22, 2009

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Lately, my villains have started invoking what they call the "Law of Social Darwinism". What is Social Darwinism? Basically, the game of "king of the hill" turned into an all-encompassing worldview. "Survival of the fittest" and all that, you know. Capitalism is based entirely on Social Darwinism, if you believe the most ruthless robber barons and the fiercest anticapitalists. When you hear the words "Law of Social Darwinism" come out of the mouth of one of my characters, especially if the character gives it a positive spin, you know you've facing a villain, and our heroes are in trouble. Case in point: in Dirty Pop, the ruthless record company chairman, based partly on the Ned Beatty character in Network, who tells our poor heroine Charlie that he owns her.

Meanwhile, in Black Science, I realized that what Willa is refuting when she defends herself against the university faculty senate is none other than Social Darwinism, of which she gives a definitive short history that includes not only eugenics and the Holocaust but Lysenkoism as well. ...Read the full article

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