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ates so i think we can claim that canada shall build the twentieth the first decades after canada s transition from a handful of british colonies to one british colony united as the first dominion of the empire were trying troublesome ones it s hard enough to build a country at the best of times and the presence of a powerful neighbor who had just got over a destructive civil war and still held on to the national dream of manifest destiny only complicated the issue as one canadian wrote in 1883 there was a settled conviction that it was the destiny of canada to be absorbed in the states those words were written by ralph centennius the pseudonym of an author whose true identity has been lost to history and whose extremely limited fame derives from a thirty page pamphlet entitled the dominion in 1983 printed in peterborough in 1883 set from the perspective of an author a century hence the dominion in 1983 takes a whirlwind look at how one hundred years of history shaped the development of canada from as prosperous and promising a young nation as the world ever saw to a country that came to take the lead among nations and has been able to keep foremost ever since prediction is a notably spotty art and the only sure thing about it is that the future that our descendants live in will resemble anything we can guess in only the vaguest stretches the same is true for centennius 1983 reaganomics the last episode of m a s h and the soviet threat are entirely absent from it in some regards the dominion in 1983 can be read as our true history reflected in a funhouse mirror in some respects it is completely off base with living beings observed in the countries in mars and jupiter through powerful telescopes in others sensible and still others possessed of an ersatz prescience his twentieth century is one in which war has ceased all the world over after an incident in 1932 when a monster oxyhydrogen shell detonated at a meeting of three emperors two kings and several princes all the royal personages were blown to atoms and were also many of their attendants their armies hardly had a chance of getting near each other so fearful was the execution of the shells centennius wrote more than thirty years before the first world war really begun to make pacifism fashionable it s not quite global thermonuclear war but considering that radioactivity wasn t discovered until 1893 it s a version of the same that a nineteenth century reader would more easily comprehend as well centennius gets it halfway right by subverting another thread that seems to have been common in futurism predating the wright brothers dismissing the old idea that balloons would be used in this century for travelling as a delusion travel in 1983 is based upon rocket cars made of a metal less than a quarter the weight of iron but as strong and durable which sounds a lot like titanium by any other name to me and capable of traversing the distance between toronto and victoria in fifty minutes which works out to a speed of little over four thousand kilometers per hour it s a world where our fossil fuel worries simply don t exist because the solidification of oxygen and hydrogen by an easy process has made it as simple a matter to buy a hundred horse power over the counter as a pound of sugar that s not to say that centennius wasn t naive in other respects though he takes the idea of a world without war one step farther and postulates canada in 1983 as without the shadow of a standing army nor a single keel to represent a navy no power except the united states would ever attack us and they could only annex us by so improving their constitution as to make it plainly very much superior to ours the complete abandonment of human nature so that everyone can stand on a hill and sing about coke may be common to a great deal of future timelines but that doesn t make it any more believable at least as far as i m concerned nevertheless while 1983 was most likely meant to be a utopic dream to his contemporaries its background betrays his nineteenth century origins what caught my eye at the very beginning was his scorn for democracy and his castigation of canadian citizens as having had a perfect mania for being represented as if representative government was something to be avoided supposedly the parliament of canada in 1983 functions splendidly with only fifteen members one for each province and a speaker and the various provincial parliaments and legislatures no longer exist at all fifteen representatives for a country of ninety three million and for whom the honour of the position is sufficient emolument which is to say they aren t paid so much as a voyageur dollar strikes me as nothing less than a return to the days of barely restrained monarchy and certainly not a democracy as we would recognize it today nor are all the clouds bright in 1983 while the anglo saxon race has steadily increased its dominion over the world it is threatened by a still formidable russia or as centennius describes it the sclavonic race possessed of brutish disposition and ferocity in the midst of all the civilizing influences of modern times the author laments over the prospect of an inevitable devastating war between the anglo saxons and sclavs which with the technologies of 1983 would result in destruction of life hardly possible to conceive now that i think about it aside from the unvarnished racist comments it actually is rather reminiscent of the actual situation in 1983 fundamentally the dominion in 1983 is a wish fulfillment fantasy an attempt to put into words the belief that the canadian experiment would succeed to the great reward of all those who participated in it although many of its details are off base mostly thanks to science marching on it remains a compelling window into canada s culture of the mind in 1883 and a guidebook to a country s hopes for tomorrow if you re interested in reading the whole thing the ebook is available from those wizards at project gutenberg no man centennius concluded can despair who ponders the position of the dominion in 1983 posted by phoebe barton at 17 02 no comments labels future review sf writing saturday march 21 2009 pdp 15 one of these things not like the others national exceptionalism is a common thing in any group there s always the temptation to think that you as a whole are better than your competitors when it comes to governance cuisine manifest destiny or the like or that the rules that apply to them don t shackle you states particularly powerful states are where that exceptionalism tends to wear its starkest masks this photo was taken at a rest stop along the northbound i 75 in ohio somewhere north of cincinnati and south of michigan on february 27 2005 i don t read japanese but even so i get the weird feeling that the english text doesn t quite agree with the rest of the languages i the copyright holder of this work hereby release it into the public domain this applies worldwide in case this is not legally possible i grant anyone the right to use this work for any purpose without any conditions unless such conditions are required by law posted by phoebe barton at 09 39 no comments labels photo public domain photography friday march 20 2009 my canada includes separatism there s a horrible terrible joke that made the rounds of schoolyards and high school halls in ontario or at least my miniscule patch of it in the years shortly after 1995 that was a strange time for my generation when for the first time a lot of us really became aware of this this thing called canada and that for whatever reason quebec didn t want to be a part of it anymore here s how it goes more or less a newfoundlander a quebecker and an ontarian are walking along the beach they find a lamp sticking out of the sand and when they polish it a genie emerges in a puff of smoke thank you for freeing me says the genie in return i will give each of you one wish first he points to the newfoundlander you what is your wish the newfoundlander s clearly been waiting for this moment for a long time i wish he says that the grand banks would be full of cod again like they were in my grandfather s day and that no matter how many fish we catch they ll never go empty again it is done the genie snaps his fingers and the newfoundlander is teleported to st john s where he immediately puts a down payment on a new trawler next up is the quebecker what wish shall i grant for you asks the genie i wish the quebecker says for quebec to be surrounded by a great wall one mile tall and a thousand feet thick so that nothing can get in or out and we can finally defend our great language and culture from the anglo menace it is done the genie says and the quebecker disappears in a flash he turns to the ontarian now what do you wish for so let me get this straight the ontarian says there s a giant wall around quebec one mile tall and a thousand feet thick there is and nothing can get in or out yes fill it with water tasteless genocide by drowning aside i think it taps into an important part of the discussion of independence vs unity in particular it s a manifestation of the angry shock and bewilderment that some group might actually want to leave this great nation and the belief that anyone who does want to leave deserves solely punishment and scorn nor is this unique to canada i suppose it s a result of political evolution inasmuch as the successful states were those that did not permit secession secession now there s a word that with its close cousin separatism is halfway dirty somewhere between frig and fuck to secede is to peek behind the curtain of the state to reveal to the world that beneath all the bluster and platitudes and ceremonies of government it is at its core an artificial expression nations are real things but states are fundamentally artifice they re aware enough of it too to lash out without prejudice at any group that wants to go its own way fuck it let s be vindictive writes will ferguson in why i hate canadians on the subject of a successful play for independence by quebec i say scorch the earth salt the fields unleash the hounds if we have to negotiate the breakup of our nation let s go kicking and screaming all the way let s make the separatist bastards pay let s go out with a bang not a whimper i m well aware that ferguson is exaggerating the situation for comic effect but that sort of attitude is not an exaggeration for some people there s always a patriotic corps that will not hear a word spoken against their country that will fight tooth and nail to prevent it from being torn apart it all begs a question though one that s rarely asked louder than a whisper why would that necessarily be a bad thing civil wars are one thing and if they solve any question it s always with the same sort of answer the romans gave carthage this was until recently the twentieth century the age of democracy and if a group democratically decides to separate itself from the greater state who are we to say they can t confederation in canada began as an amicable assembly of four provinces united for the common good but where in the british north america act or the constitution does it say that canada is a straitjacket if quebec wants to separate if the people of quebec decide that they d rather take their chances on their own and under their own flag let them go and good luck to them personally i m satisfied that separatist sentiment in quebec seems to be for now on the ebb i have no doubt that tide will rise again soon particularly if the economy keeps taking its lumps like a punch drunk boxer though we re thankfully far from having soldiers in the streets of montreal a second time not all countries are as blessed with stability as canada is last summer in south ossetia we saw the problems that come with clamping down on dreams of going one s own way the tamil tigers have been trying to carve out a slice of sri lanka for themselves for years and earlier this week tens of thousands of tamil demonstrators clogged the streets of downtown toronto in support of them in my opinion we have to draw the line somewhere there s no such thing as a sacred country the sooner we realize that the better because from where i stand it looks like the twenty first century is going to be the time when a lot of nations decide they want to have their own nation states after all posted by phoebe barton at 09 54 no comments labels cogitation politics thursday march 19 2009 pdp 14 eglinton west being on the night shift for thirteen months gave me a lot of opportunity to see more of toronto by which i mean i made myself go out regularly with camera in hand so i wouldn t have to worry about vitamin d deficiency the city is an interesting place in the morning especially when that morning is the end of your day there s a wide open bustle to it that just isn t around once the sun s climbed high in the sky this photo was taken on eglinton avenue west at venn crescent in the old city of york on the morning of july 25 2008 those were still good times i the copyright holder of this work hereby release it into the public domain this applies worldwide in case this is not legally possible i grant anyone the right to use this work for any purpose without any conditions unless such conditions are required by law posted by phoebe barton at 11 25 no comments labels photo public domain photography wednesday march 18 2009 short sf review 3 the saturn game the saturn game by poul anderson appeared in analog science fiction science fact february 2 1981 the game the damned childish game he muttered too low for his companions to hear was nothing saner possible for them one of the continuous threads that runs through the tapestry of the human experience is the constant desire to ignore or deny reality you can see it in people who sit at the same slot machine for hours because it s overdue for a hefty payout or among the cold war leaders who insisted there was such a thing as a winnable nuclear war you can see it in roleplaying games like all those set in white wolf s old world of darkness setting where mages struggled against a consensus reality in which brazen paranormal acts were forbidden because people didn t believe in magic and that belief made it so that sort of concept while common in fantasy doesn t belong in science fiction as far as i m concerned in science fiction reality is the implacable judge poul anderson s the saturn game is one of the places where those two conceits converge into one the story follows four crew members aboard chronos a spaceship launched to conduct a thorough exploration of saturn and its moons an eight year journey from earth their specific responsibility is to survey the moon iapetus as the last robotic probe sent there ceased transmitting shortly after landing anderson does well in his descriptions of iapetus a moon rimed with ice and boasting natural architectures that endure solely because for millions of years there...