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When i first discovere Bacchus when I was sixteen and it was published by Harrier I thought, 'WOW!'
It's been a long time since i read any though and I remember thinking at the time that the stuff he did with Dark Horse was not very good.
What's funny about this interview is Campbell's mannered questions - so desperate not to appear thick in front of the verbose Moore, he's sixth-formed his questions to the max.
Reading through much of moore's 2000AD work recently, I realised how massive an influence Douglas Adams is on Moore's writing. It's the source of Moore's humourous work for sure.
Also, I'm no longer so convinced by Moore's Ideaspace rationale. While the concept for me is still strong, the route he takes to arrive at the concept is not particularly sensible or logical.
To brutally paraphrase Moore he says; 'Ideaspace must exist unless you want to chalk down to coincidence the fact that several people were working independently on the steam engine concept'.
This is disingenous. It doesn't take into account that accumatively knowledge was building toward the conceptualisation of steam power. Science, technology and economics were at a point where steam power was a logical progression in terms of societal development.
If the societal conditions were such that scientific thought was encouraged, then it's no coincidence that steam power was being conceived by several minds. This doesn't discount the existence of Ideaspace, but it does disprove Moore's assertion that Ideaspace MUST exist because any other interpretation of parallel development can only be described by coincidence.
The way I see it, would be like this: as societal conditions which are sympathetic to scientific development are put in place, seismic shifts within Ideaspace occur, pushing idea clusters up and forming into rocky prominitories easily viewed and scaled by suitably equipped 'explorers'. In he case of the Steam Engine, it was James Watt, who manage to scale the peak and plant his flag before anyone else.
All in all though, I'd love to start mapping the place meself. |
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