Well, good. See, the problem is one of circular logic: They don't really matter, so people don't vote on them and because people don't vote on them, they're not representational nor relevant so people don't vote on them because why bother?
The bad part of that comes down to the old Edmund Burke saying, that for evil to triumph it is only necessary that good men do nothing. The reason why the Communist Party's various off-shoots and descendants and outright hand-puppets have been able to do such damage to Western civilization, is because they care enough to work at it as a career, while those who favor individual freedom and self-determination… don't.
So you could find - and arguably, already do find - the once-coveted “Hugo Award” becoming a bellwether for Politically Correct garbage, just as happened to the Academy Awards out on the Left Coast, which annually ignore good and popular movies to favor leftist propaganda - and are themselves ignored by the ordinary people of this nation who know that they are not consulted or welcome anyway.
Eventually, “winning a Hugo” could mean essentially nothing, save among a clique of jealous Zealots who watch each other constantly for any signs of thoughtcrime.
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Date: 2015-02-20 04:55 am (UTC)The bad part of that comes down to the old Edmund Burke saying, that for evil to triumph it is only necessary that good men do nothing. The reason why the Communist Party's various off-shoots and descendants and outright hand-puppets have been able to do such damage to Western civilization, is because they care enough to work at it as a career, while those who favor individual freedom and self-determination… don't.
So you could find - and arguably, already do find - the once-coveted “Hugo Award” becoming a bellwether for Politically Correct garbage, just as happened to the Academy Awards out on the Left Coast, which annually ignore good and popular movies to favor leftist propaganda - and are themselves ignored by the ordinary people of this nation who know that they are not consulted or welcome anyway.
Eventually, “winning a Hugo” could mean essentially nothing, save among a clique of jealous Zealots who watch each other constantly for any signs of thoughtcrime.