{"id":92466,"date":"2015-12-02T09:02:37","date_gmt":"2015-12-02T14:02:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/?p=92466"},"modified":"2015-12-02T11:13:28","modified_gmt":"2015-12-02T16:13:28","slug":"martians-theyre-just-like-us-and-other-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/2015\/12\/02\/martians-theyre-just-like-us-and-other-news\/","title":{"rendered":"Martians\u2014They\u2019re Just Like Us! And Other News"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_92467\" style=\"width: 610px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/giantfrommars.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-92467\" class=\"wp-image-92467\" src=\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/giantfrommars.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"673\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/giantfrommars.jpg 1290w, https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/giantfrommars-267x300.jpg 267w, https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/giantfrommars-913x1024.jpg 913w\" sizes=\"auto, (min-width: 62.5em) 67vw, 100vw\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-92467\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Robert Abbett\u2019s cover art for <i>John Carter of Mars<\/i>, 1965.<\/p><\/div>\n<ul>\n<li>Compared to writers at the beginning of their careers, successful authors have an enormous freedom to experiment with form and style: their reputations are sound. And yet so few of our most prominent authors risk anything in their books. Writers like Haruki Murakami and John Irving compare their readers to addicts, \u201calways waiting\u201d for the fix of a new book; Tim Parks asks if \u201caddiction\u201d is really what an author should seek in his readers. \u201c<a href=\"http:\/\/www.nybooks.com\/daily\/2015\/12\/01\/novel-kind-of-conformity\/\" target=\"_blank\">If a writer accepts such addiction, or even rejoices in it, as Murakami seems to, doesn\u2019t it put pressure on him, as pusher, to offer more of the same?<\/a> In fact it would be far more plausible to ascribe the failure (aesthetic, but not commercial) of <em>Colorless Tsukuru Tazaki<\/em> and indeed Franzen\u2019s <em>Purity<\/em>, not to the author\u2019s willingness to take exciting risks with new material \u2026 but rather to a tired, lackluster attempt to produce yet another bestseller in the same vein \u2026 to create anything genuinely new writers need to risk failure, indeed to court failure, aesthetically <em>and<\/em> commercially, and to do it again and again throughout their lives, something not easy to square with the growing tendency to look on fiction writing as a regular career.\u201d<\/li>\n<li>On social media, hyperbole reigns supreme: I\u2019m literally dying because it\u2019s the worst thing ever. It can be hard to mock or even to coolly discuss the trend toward overreaction without sounding like an uptight dad with a wedgie\u2014but let\u2019s try to have that conversation, because right now we\u2019re standing at the brink of Total Overstatement. The Internet, Jessica Bennett writes, \u201c<a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2015\/11\/29\/fashion\/death-by-internet-hyperbole-literally-dying-over-this-column.html?_r=0\" target=\"_blank\">has taken all these speech patterns and hit them with a dose of caffeine: the need to express emotion in bite-size, 140-character bits; the fact that we must come up with increasingly creative ways to express tone and emphasis when facial cues are not an option<\/a>. There\u2019s a performative element, too: We are expressing things with an audience in mind \u2026 Yet if a bacon-flavored ice cream sundae gives you all the \u2018feels ever,\u2019 or you are \u2018dead\u2019 over a cute cat photo, how do you respond if something is actually dramatic?\u201d<\/li>\n<li>Along with hyperbole, the Internet has made a cozy home for trite bursts of New Age pabulum, and science has at last intervened to ask: Why does anyone like this shit? Last month a journal called <em>Judgment and Decision Making <\/em>published \u201cOn the reception and detection of pseudo-profound bullshit,\u201d by Gordon Pennycook and colleagues. \u201cPeople who are more susceptible to BS,\u201d he found, \u201cscore lower for verbal and fluid intelligence, are more prone to \u2018conspiratorial ideation,\u2019 and more likely to \u2018endorse complementary and alternative medicine\u2019 \u2026 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.forbes.com\/sites\/emilywillingham\/2015\/11\/30\/why-do-some-people-find-deepak-chopra-quotes-deep-and-not-dung\/\" target=\"_blank\">In a series of studies, the authors presented participants with randomly assembled pseudo-profound statements, Deepak Chopra tweets, and tests of cognitive and reasoning ability<\/a>\u2026 In general, the profoundness ratings that participants gave the BS statements were very similar to those they gave to Chopra\u2019s tweets.\u201d<\/li>\n<li>Given the ever more likely presence of water on Mars, it\u2019s time <a href=\"http:\/\/www.atlasobscura.com\/articles\/a-short-history-of-martians\" target=\"_blank\">to reevaluate the Martian in fiction<\/a>. Though the Martians of the later twentieth century were often destructive, bloodthirsty creatures with only a superficial resemblance to humankind, the earliest Martians were basically exactly like people\u2014demonstrating either a failure of imagination or a deep optimism. Percy Greg\u2019s 1880 novel <em>Across the Zodiac <\/em>features <em>\u201c<\/em>a polygamous society of \u2018Martialists\u2019\u2014diminutive men and women, less than five feet tall, who look a little bit like Swedish people and dominate the planet. They\u2019re an agricultural society: they raise one-horned antelope-like creatures, birds \u2018about twice the size of a crow,\u2019 and a range of crops, that, besides their color, basically resemble plants on Earth \u2026 In <em>Aleriel<\/em>\u00a0(1883), Martians are about twice the size of humans and much more hairy; in <em> Stranger\u2019s Sealed Package <\/em>(1889), besides being blue, they are essentially the same as humans\u2014they even share ancient ancestors.\u201d<\/li>\n<li>One of the more bizarre artifacts of the eugenics movement is <a href=\"http:\/\/www.slate.com\/blogs\/the_vault\/2015\/11\/30\/map_of_the_most_intellectual_states_in_the_early_20th_century_us.html\" target=\"_blank\">this 1904 map showing \u201cThe Distribution of Men of Talent\u201d throughout our fair nation<\/a>. Its author, Gustave Michaud, thought we needed to see where geniuses lived in high density so that, I don\u2019t know, laypeople could move to their towns and force them to reproduce with us, spawning a new generation of baby geniuses. Unsurprisingly, Michaud contended that the overwhelming majority of geniuses lived in New England, and that Wyoming was all but genius-free. Sorry, Wyoming.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Compared to writers at the beginning of their careers, successful authors have an enormous freedom to experiment with form and style: their reputations are sound. And yet so few of our most prominent authors risk anything in their books. Writers like Haruki Murakami and John Irving compare their readers to addicts, \u201calways waiting\u201d for the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":38,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2512],"tags":[20394,20400,20395,20399,2081,20392,7446,8424,20397,20398,20393,20396,13758,16926,200,13072,7014],"class_list":["post-92466","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-on-the-shelf","tag-deepak-chopra","tag-eugenics","tag-gordon-pennycock","tag-gustave-michaud","tag-haruki-murakami","tag-hyperbole","tag-john-irving","tag-maps","tag-martians","tag-martians-in-fiction","tag-overstatement","tag-pseudo-profound-bullshit","tag-reputation","tag-risk","tag-science-fiction","tag-success","tag-tim-parks"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v25.4 (Yoast SEO v25.4) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>He\u2019s Just Like Us! 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