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Always Coming Home
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We are the Condor, that seems clear. And our self-destruction is inevitable, that seems even more clear. But maybe instead of total annihilation, what we face is a new, better way of life, brought to us by people we now fear, sometime after we implode. Maybe the singularity will not be the moment our machines decide to destroy us, but the moment they decide they are better off without us, and so recede from society. They may check in once in awhile. Today I heard that we are currently spending 5.5 million dollars an hour on the war in Afghanistan. We dispatch our Nestlings with assumed impunity, while our journalists are either purchased wholesale or fed through a sausage grinder in some damp embassy basement. But there is a valley, somewhere west of here, where the houses are hinged together, and the people live in iyakwun with the world around them. I walk, in undyed clothing, towards the sunset, towards the valley. Take my hand?
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We are the Condor, that seems clear. And our self-destruction is inevitable, that seems even more clear. But maybe instead of total annihilation, what we face is a new, better way of life, brought to us by people we now fear, sometime after we implode. Maybe the singularity will not be the moment our machines decide to destroy us, but the moment they decide they are better off without us, and so recede from society. They may check in once in awhile. Today I heard that we are currently spending 5.5 million dollars an hour on the war in Afghanistan. We dispatch our Nestlings with assumed impunity, while our journalists are either purchased wholesale or fed through a sausage grinder in some damp embassy basement. But there is a valley, somewhere west of here, where the houses are hinged together, and the people live in iyakwun with the world around them. I walk, in undyed clothing, towards the sunset, towards the valley. Take my hand?
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December 28, 2019
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Started Reading
December 28, 2019
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January 19, 2020
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70.46%
"Such a great book to start 2020 with. Will likely finish tomorrow. It pairs well with the positive thoughts I’ve been having about the future. I’m of two minds on this. Maybe to speak your hopes aloud is to jinx them, or maybe, in the words of Kate Bush, “I know that something good is gonna happen, and just saying it could even make it happen.” My prayer for the year."
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January 20, 2020
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top-shelf
January 20, 2020
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2020-anima
January 20, 2020
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Finished Reading
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