I think I have my tactical ducks in a row now, but still missing the coup d’oeil. The problem with a virus as an adversary is that it makes for such a fundamentally meaningless conflict, it’s hard to “do strategy” around it in a traditional sense. Like division by zero error.
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Could really use a prime radiant rn Or at least a psychohistory Sankey diagram of the sort I’ve cartooned before to get at sentiment superstates https://www.ribbonfarm.com/2017/11/30/prolegomena-to-any-dark-age-psychohistory/ …pic.twitter.com/GUxPOMvbc1
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We’ve landed in a dank version of pebble in the sky https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pebble_in_the_Sky …
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It is the darkest Asimov novel — and his first. Basically “floor is lava” world. His lava was radioactivity rather than viruses.
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Unlike newer versions of the story like Elysium or In Time, it’s not a crude rich vs poor divided world. It’s a world that has a structural hard choice built in by the environment.
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