Engineers occasionally joke, “If it doesn’t fit, force it.” I addressed this topic previously in a 2016 post, Mind-Control: Fiction or Nonfiction? That was a nonfiction update on a field of development at the core of my novel about a virus exploiting a computer-brain interface: PsyBot. I conceived of the…
Coronavirus Loyalty Quiz
(Coronavirus Journal, part 6) As you peruse the list of names we call each other--the insults and slogans we use to advance our cause and torpedo the agenda of our adversary--check which team you root for. Which arrows do you find yourself slinging? *Hierachy > > < < Panarchists*…
Under Advisement
Coronavirus Journal, part 5 Advice I’ve received or come across lately: Keep it simple.Tell readers what they want to hear.Ditch the dogma; idle the ideology.Set aside ego identity, worldly fears and desires, competing theories and facts… Look within.Go to your room. The last one came from an astrologer, referencing lockdown,…
A Litany of Subversion
Coronavirus Journal, part 4 “Literature is the effort of man to indemnify himself for the wrongs of his condition.”--Emerson On April 9 Anthony Fauci, head health honcho of the White House, urged at a press conference that we must not question the official story of the coronavirus pandemic; instead, “Let…