Science Fiction's Job Is to Never Stop Trying to Think of an Alternative

I think that when I think back on those people that I gained with in the 80s as a teenager, as a is a tween, they and I had some shared values. Like it was a minority fringe thing to pretend to be a magical creature, right? That's just not a thing that normal people did then. And it gave us some common ground. And it's the starting place for conversation. It doesn't go to these kind of simplistic accounts where like Google invented a mind control rate of cellular nephew fidget spinners, and then Robert Mercer stole it and made your uncle a Q and on. Instead, it says like, if your if your uncle is a Q and