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This is absolutely deranged.

Let me know when it’s published and I’ll buy a copy.

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Same.

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I figure I'll test the world building concepts out in short substack pieces over the next year to see how they play.

Upcoming: egregore wars, UFOs, and a unified theory of religious metaphysics.

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Noice. I like how you are bagging on all the extremely online internet cliques with poetic language.

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I feel like if I'm going to do this, I'd rather channel Robert Anton Wilson than William Gibson. Make a list of every dire prediction and popular conspiracy theory no matter how absurd, presume they're all true, and map out what that looks like in 75 years.

I'll steer clear of Birds Aren't Real and Flat Earth, but I'll definitely include UFOs. I'm on the fence about lizard people, and I can't put anything in stone about JFK until Trump gets done releasing info later this year.

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I like. The Toms seem like a particularly novel and potentially fertile (sorry) strand. And you get the right language cadence in the first intro bit before the proper info dump begins.

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Fantastic.

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Great writing, bravo, applause, William Gibson and William Burroughs tier. This has to become longer and a chapter in a book.

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Unfortunately Gibson has becomes so egregore captured at this point his vision to be able to pull something like this off is stunted. It's a real shame. Neil Stephenson might be able to do it but he's too far down the environmentalist rabbit hole of late I think. Unlikely he'll be able to replicate anything as creative and forward thinking as Anathem in the future.

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For sure once Gibson started doing “near future” stuff his writing became boring.

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I don't know, I rather liked the Blue Ant stuff to be honest. It was slower, sure, but still fun and still engaged in some interesting concepts. His twitter feed is brainmeltingly dumb.

I still need to read The Peripheral. I have a hardcopy on my nightstand that I never opened, and I was disappointed that the series got canned.

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I remember that one being good, good San Fran cyberpunk.

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Pastes “take my money” meme.

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This is terrifying and wonderful at the same time

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Wow. That might be a little too dystopic for my tastes. And I *like* Dystopic Cyberpunk Literature.

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Wait til we get to the part about population collapse, antibiotic collapse, hormone collapse, mass AI egregore brainwashing, and the UFOs.

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LOL!

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Have you read “Kaleidoscope Century” by John Barnes? It’s reminiscent of this.

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