http://www.seandfrancis.com Tech loving, philosophy spewing, social media doing, geekery. Fri, 03 Feb 2012 18:17:07 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 Copyright © Sean D. Francis 2010 sdf2008@gmail.com (Sean D. Francis) sdf2008@gmail.com (Sean D. Francis) 1440 http://www.seandfrancis.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/03/UniversalGeek.jpg http://www.seandfrancis.com 144 144 Talking about geek culture and the geek lifestyle: the movies, books, television, video games that geeks enjoy, as well as activities and events that geeks enjoy doing. Sean D. Francis Sean D. Francis sdf2008@gmail.com no no http://www.seandfrancis.com/2009/09/who-walks-away-from-utopia/ http://www.seandfrancis.com/2009/09/who-walks-away-from-utopia/#comments Wed, 09 Sep 2009 01:30:22 +0000 Sean http://1656136155 http://www.seandfrancis.com/2009/09/who-walks-away-from-utopia/feed/ 0 0:10:57 This is kind of a downer episode of the BroadWave.  I discuss a science fiction short story that presents a perfect society with one flaw, the only reason it is perfect is because one person within that society is treated like an animal.  One innoce[...] This is kind of a downer episode of the BroadWave.  I discuss a science fiction short story that presents a perfect society with one flaw, the only reason it is perfect is because one person within that society is treated like an animal.  One innocent is sacrificed so the rest may live in absolute pleasure. I was reminded of this story because of the report I heard on the radioshow Worldview which discussed the modern slave trade.  We always think of slavery as occurring in the dens of authoritarian governments, Chinese labor prisons or some third world nation, but the United States has an ongoing slave trade.  Why aren’t we horrified into unified action because I don’t know one person who supports slavery? Some links to books on the subject: Modern Slavery: The Secret World of 27 Million People Disposable People: New Slavery in the Global Economy And this is a link to an organization that is trying to do something about slavery – these people would walk away from Utopia:  Free The Slaves I promise a funny BroadWave soon, to balance out all this serious dross. Audio/Visual Sean D. Francis no no