Michael Crichton on People Who Don't Mind Their Own Business

I do not read fiction, either (except what I had to do for school). Crichton starts preaching his form of libertarianism, but I can guarantee with 100% certainty that he will apply his philosophy ONLY to very specific political groups, specifically, civilians, but never to judges, cops, and prison guards. Hence, he loses all credibility. He is merely an entertainer. Period. A FICTION writer. Period.

he is a fiction writer answering questions by his fans. not preaching. he does not go out and seek power. power naturally comes to him because he has a powerful soul.

There is no such thing as "powerful soul". Chrichton entertain. Period. Nothing wrong with entertainment. But it does not beat the difficulty of hardcore mathematical and computer programming modelling and proof.

Unless you are logically consistent and claim all entertainers are powerful souls. But, again - that's inconsistent with reality. You would need to say EVERYbody is a powerful soul.

I heard Mr. Crichton speak at the Los Angeles Book Fair some years ago.

He had some great insight on the occupation of writing! We so-called writers are prone to exclamations like, "I'm just not in the mood to write today".

Crichton said, "What if airline pilots had that attitude? I don't feel like flying the plane today!"?

You are sorely missed, Michael. You had me hooked with "The Andromeda Strain".

Thanks for sharing his thoughts. There aren't enough videos of Crichton on YouTube. He spoke at Universities, Charlie Rose several times, he also testified in front of the US senate on global warming, where are all those videos....?

They've been here, I've seen them.

The senate testimony seems to have gone away, but the lectures are better anyway.

i like reading books sometime

I recently read a book about North Korea. WOW, talk about wanting everybody to think and act the same way!!

Interesting topic. I've stopped and thought about how SO MANY PEOPLE want to tell you what's best for your life. IT'S STUPID, and it's usually the people who are the unhappiest who want to manipulate you.

Other sci-fi writers demonstrate, even in their fiction, that they understand science.

True enough- I'm amusing myself reading a lot of NIven. Apparently Dyson didn't have a problem with his RingWorld, either, though according to Niven, he wondered why not build lots of small Ring Worlds.