The Sane Are Usually Attracted By Other

In The Book, America Had Already Been Weakened By Bio Terror Plagues Before Waves Of Selfish Violence Took Down The Rest. But The Real Enemy Was The Kind Of Male Human Being Who Nurses Fantasies Of Violent Glory At The Expense Of His Fellow Citizens.

Change Is The Principal Feature Of Our Age And Literature Should Explore How People Deal With It. The Best Science Fiction Does That, Head-on.

The Sane Are Usually Attracted By Other Things Than Power.

In Contrast, Markets - Oft Mythologized As "natural" Are The Most Unnatural Things Going. Libertarians Will Tell You "market Laws Are Laws Of Nature", What Baloney. Markets - And The Other Great Modernist Cornucopian Tools - Are Magnificent Wealth Generating Machines, Built Ad-hoc, Through Trial And Error, Constantly Fine-tuned And Refined, Tinkered, Adjusted.

In All Of History, We Have Found Just One Cure For Error—a Partial Antidote Against Making And Repeating Grand, Foolish Mistakes, A Remedy Against Self-deception. That Antidote Is Criticism.