Whole Foods, Jon Mackay, and the WSJ editors

[--Pete]

Hi,

Personally I find Orson Scott Card to be a repulsive individual . . .

When I first read your post, I wondered why you felt like this. Then I read the link you gave and understood. It is really a shame. Card is an excellent author who has often written works that are both entertaining and thought provoking. In person he is engaging, pleasant, and very intelligent (at one sf con, he led a roomful of us in defining an alien plant, its properties, its denizens, and its potential conflicts). Over the years, however, I found myself reading less of his work as his religious beliefs (LDS) made his works too preachy. The last book of his I read felt more like an attempt to convert me than to entertain me. So, you might say that I've been boycotting him for some time. I had not realized how extreme and active he had become. To me, it is sad to see an intellect like his corrupted by religious fanaticism. The desire of some people to control the lives of others is a perversion I cannot understand, but one that I, too, find repulsive.

--Pete