She’s so pretty.

I figure he’s just a smart guy with a radically alien perspective. There’s still some useful overlap, surely.

To be fair, the pro-work propaganda is directed at the middle of the bell curve. That guy in the middle has bespoke mindfuck beamed into his brain 24-7, but the guys on the ends are well out of the line of fire.

I dig pink Floyd deeply.

Presently listening to obscured by clouds a lot

And therefore… this is an example of the dreams of youth definitely not being the regrets of maturity.

Popular scifi, written to appeal to the majority, for tv and movies, is actually only one special kind of scifi. And the majority isn’t known for its depth or taste.

I’m not saying that there aren’t exceptions, but ya, that’s how it is.

There’s a whole world of written scifi where the point is basically to show you something strange. Ideas so weird that scifi is the only way to convey them.

Here’s some free, online scifi by good authors. Your mind will be blown.

https://www.fimfiction.net/story/62074/friendship-is-optimal

https://qntm.org/structure

https://library.gift/fiction/9F6810564C853BD3EA7223E4AB1FA575

Is science fiction enough for talking about politics?

Konami? Like, the videogame company?

Psychedelics is nice but meditation is better.

Gentle, manual, comprehensive, ceilingless.

Neo rises from his coffin.

I think that if we made humans more moral then democracy would work better and knock over any ruling class. Maybe some kind of mental therapy. Hallucinogens? Shamanic journeying? Something to make people better.

Humans are magic. Capable of volition. Machines can only react. AI will be something like a really good wish-granting machine. Much like it is now but better. Want it? I dunno, don’t feel much about it. It’s inevitable tho.

Well it is just a story to you. I mean seriously, unless you experience it firsthand it’s just a story. No matter how convincing, or what respected authority is telling you about it, or how moving the video is. It’s still just a story, a bunch of words and pictures. And that’s always way less compelling than your actual first-hand-experience life.

To be fair, all the stuff in your life, that you are experiencing firsthand, is always going to be way stronger than a story you read about in the news.

mmm

Splitting the obedient underclass from the disobedient underclass.

Maybe it’s a staged event. The latest consensus-splitter / distraction.

Look how it has split us. Reddit deleting posts. Unironic discussion of guillotines.

Luigi is probably working for them. His job is to do all the “right” things, to further the preferred narrative and such. He’s a paid actor.

The real infidel will disappear quietly.