Just another face in the crowd… I hope. He/him or whatever. I have the luxury of not having to be fussed.
Selfishness is coded into us by evolution. It’s genetic. Lots of people will agree with me on this.
What I get a lot of pushback on, is that selflessness is the same. It has evolutionary benefits for a familial group, and so gets selected for.
I loved the “anyone can be special” message, even when rammed down our throat by having the slave stable boy force pull the broom to himself at the end of the movie.
I hated them undoing that and going “hahahaha, no, you’re actually one of the two special families!!” in Rise of Skywalker.
I quite enjoy the Baroque Cycle. I am yet to read Snowcrash.
I think Jordies wording of “police terror units to prosecute and intimidate me was deeply unsettling” was very smart. When anti-terror units are used in the way they were against him and his editor, they themselves become the source of the terror.