I too have nothing substantial to add on account of your being completely right, except that I might go further than "inertia" and label it sheer (intellectual, ethical) laziness. On top of being racist, it's also bad writing and cheap fantasy; those dichotomies were shopworn at least by Tolkien, if not before.
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Date: 27 Nov 2009 01:34 am (UTC)I too have nothing substantial to add on account of your being completely right, except that I might go further than "inertia" and label it sheer (intellectual, ethical) laziness. On top of being racist, it's also bad writing and cheap fantasy; those dichotomies were shopworn at least by Tolkien, if not before.