Sunday, September 26, 2021

so, what's with the dr. calvin/calvinism thing?

i kept an eye out for that, and it only shows up briefly in that one text, the evitable conflict, where she insists on a robot-driven predestination.

i actually think that what asimov might have been getting at was the crustiness and austerity of calvinism. susan calvin might not say much about calvinist theology, but she certainly represents a caricature of the protestant work ethic....