{"id":710,"date":"2015-05-16T23:00:23","date_gmt":"2015-05-16T23:00:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/lordre\/?p=710"},"modified":"2015-08-20T16:08:34","modified_gmt":"2015-08-20T16:08:34","slug":"these-are-the-voyages-of-critique-and-influence","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/lordre\/2015\/05\/these-are-the-voyages-of-critique-and-influence.html","title":{"rendered":"These are the voyages of critique and influence"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center\"><i>O\u00f9 serait le m\u00e9rite, si les h\u00e9ros n\u2019avaient jamais peur?<\/i><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\">Where would be the merit if heroes were never afraid?<\/p>\n<p id=\"firstHeading\" class=\"firstHeading\" lang=\"en\" style=\"text-align: center\"><strong>Alphonse Daudet<\/strong><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<h2 style=\"text-align: left\">It has occurred to me that I am too partisan on this blog, and a good old\u00a0vitriolic\u00a0blog shouldn&#8217;t take sides with any political faction. The aim is to superlatively influence, and the ball and chain of party affiliation reduces that influence on parts of the online demographic.<\/h2>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/wp-media.beliefnet.com\/sites\/375\/2015\/05\/Search-Beyond-Traction-digital-art-1-small.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-711 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/wp-media.beliefnet.com\/sites\/375\/2015\/05\/Search-Beyond-Traction-digital-art-1-small.png\" alt=\"Search Beyond Traction digital art 1 small\" width=\"500\" height=\"300\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left\">As such, I am no longer going to support anyone in particular via\u00a0this blog, and I will solely use this space\u00a0now to criticize or mock people and raise questions like a good blogger. That is, unless special circumstances force me to revert it back to a more partisan role. The previous post I made here, <em>&#8220;&#8221;Islamic State&#8221; is too good for its own Prophet?&#8221;<\/em> is a new model post for me here at the <em>L&#8217;Ordre<\/em> blog, and future posts I make will follow a similar objective. They will analyze and criticize foreign governments and groups (from my perspective in the UK), something I have so far been quite good at.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" lang=\"en\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/ISIS?src=hash\">#ISIS<\/a> thinks it knows better than the <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/ProphetMohammed?src=hash\">#ProphetMohammed<\/a> (PBUH), by destroying Assyrian ruins. <a href=\"http:\/\/t.co\/5JLlrVvjDb\">http:\/\/t.co\/5JLlrVvjDb<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/t.co\/O1DZ2BN4UQ\">pic.twitter.com\/O1DZ2BN4UQ<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Harry Bentham (@hjbentham) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hjbentham\/status\/599513875634102273\">May 16, 2015<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>I will also cease writing my\u00a0own op-eds around the web, and instead comment on other writers&#8217;\u00a0op-eds and reviews with this blog. My promised review of <em>No Place to Hide<\/em> by Glenn Greenwald will\u00a0proceed still. Book reviews are things\u00a0done in the spirit of commenting upon others&#8217; views, as I am now re-purposing\u00a0this influential blog to achieve.<\/p>\n<p>The majority\u00a0of my writing has never been political, religious or controversial in any sense, and is actually fantasy fiction. I have far too many working ideas for fiction at the moment to possibly know where to begin, but you can expect new such works to appear in future. A glimpse into a sample of one work in development now can be found at Maquis Books\u00a0by\u00a0the working title <a href=\"http:\/\/maquisbooks.blogspot.co.uk\/2015\/04\/new-sci-fi-adventure-unknown-horizon.html\" target=\"_blank\">&#8220;UNKNOWN HORIZON&#8221;<\/a>.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" lang=\"en\"><p>Hit &#8220;Search Beyond Series&#8221; <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/amazon\">@Amazon<\/a> for more <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/StarTrek?src=hash\">#StarTrek<\/a> style adventures but with added realism <a href=\"http:\/\/t.co\/PV0HOMUta9\">http:\/\/t.co\/PV0HOMUta9<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/t.co\/cAFb1NYslI\">pic.twitter.com\/cAFb1NYslI<\/a> \u2014 Maquis Books (@MaquisBooks) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/MaquisBooks\/status\/587257676905734144\">April 12, 2015<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: left\">My <em>Search Beyond<\/em> Series, which first appealed itself to its audience by pretending to be\u00a0<em>Star Trek<\/em> fanfiction at the website Ad Astra, was always actually an original creation by me. I have always been dissatisfied with <em>Star Trek<\/em>&#8216;s light-hearted approach to space exploration and its attempts to appeal to children, and I truly find the premise of <em>Star Trek<\/em> to be absurd. True space exploration should be filled with horror that makes Ridley Scott&#8217;s\u00a0<em>Alien<\/em> look like a picnic. The videogames of the\u00a0<em>Dead Space <\/em>series,\u00a0although punctuated\u00a0with occasional <em>Star Trek<\/em> cliches, are\u00a0possibly the greatest immersive sci-fi horror experience I have ever had. I will admit they have become such a great influence on me that I often pictured the\u00a0<em>Ishimura<\/em>&#8216;s corridors as I try to sculpt\u00a0the image of the spaceship <em>Traction<\/em> at the center\u00a0of these palpitating space\u00a0stories.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left\">Certainly, the<em> Search Beyond<\/em> stories are not <em>Star Trek<\/em> fanfiction, but are complete with their\u00a0own technology, physics and creatures that you will never encounter\u00a0anywhere else, and some thoroughly nightmarish\u00a0science fiction horror plots that would have been simply too extreme for <em>Star Trek <\/em>or<em> Dr Who.<\/em><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\">By\u00a0<a title=\"Harry J. Bentham's file at The clubof.info Blog\" href=\"http:\/\/www.clubof.info\/search\/label\/Harry_J_Bentham\" target=\"_blank\">Harry J. Bentham<\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-41\" src=\"https:\/\/wp-media.beliefnet.com\/sites\/375\/2014\/08\/HJB-Signature-and-stamp-300x169.jpg\" alt=\"HJB Signature and stamp\" width=\"200\" height=\"113\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>O\u00f9 serait le m\u00e9rite, si les h\u00e9ros n\u2019avaient jamais peur? Where would be the merit if heroes were never afraid? Alphonse Daudet It has occurred to me that I am too partisan on this blog, and a good old\u00a0vitriolic\u00a0blog shouldn&#8217;t take sides with any political faction. 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