Science fiction has always been a mirror and a map, reflecting our ambitions while charting their risks. In Richard K. Morgan’s Altered Carbon, Takeshi Kovacs prowls a neon-drenched future where the wealthy, known as Methuselahs, cheat death by slipping their digitized minds into new bodies, their consciousness preserved in cortical […]
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Chpt 48: It’ll Be Over By Christmas
There’s an ideological quirk that I’ve observed. A cognitive tic baked into the psyche of the progressive left. In Chpt 41: Lasting Damage I referenced a heatmap that made the rounds online. It came from a 2018 Nature article titled “Ideological differences in the expanse of the moral circle”, and […]
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Chpt 47: Attitude Adjuster
I value straightforwardness over performative politeness. This can, and has, got me into trouble at times. Speaking your mind openly and honestly has for a long time felt like a social taboo. For a public figure to break that social taboo and speak without the sanitised, empty, double speak normally […]