Cold War Teleporting
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So I put aside a couple of other books I’m in the middle of to start the new Eggers novel and 67 pages in I find this beauty:
“We know we’re stronger but we ignore this. We don’t know our strength. You watch Star Trek, how they—what’s the word for their beaming up and down—”
Teleporting,” I said, shocked at this train of thought, and how it had just plowed right into my own backyard.
“Right,” Raymond said. “They teleport in and out of those troubled planets?”
“Wait,” Hand said, actually raising his palm to Raymond’s face. “You get Star Trek in Chile?”
“Of course.”
Hand snorted, impressed. “Okay, go on.”
“So this teleporting was based on a Cold War mentality. This was the American foreign policy model then. This was based on the American strength, the American ability to move and change the worlds they touched onto.”
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Posted to Books • 2002.10.20 (Sun) • 13:05
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Posted by Christopher Walker 2002.10.21, 12:27
Nowadays Americans prefer to teleport pre-emptively.
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