@0@tyler@placebo For those of you not reading my books, there is a reason the 100+ million dead of the Breakup in the US alone were concentrated in cities. Only Maine, Texas, and a few city-states in the South survived. Culture, religion, the mass expulsion of Diversity. It allowed the idea to slowly percolate down that the so-called Enlightenment, in general, was not a good thing, and that liberal democracy, in particular, was a total failure.
Only ethno-states live. All four Great Powers are monarchies and two have fascist governments. And they are on the Moon, Mars, and in the Belt and eying the Gas Giant moons. What we were promised in the 50s and 60s in SF comes true. Once we stop coddling orcs who hated us or listening to satan worshippers, we can accomplish anything.
@TrevorGoodchild@Nils I sometimes wonder what the real price of physical gold is; not this paper or ones/zeros, but in-your-hand coins (unclipped). 20x? 100x?
@SuperLutheran I give to my parish*. I have never, and will never, give anything to the diocese. They are hateful, satanic, communist trash. What's going on in Springfield, Ohio, two hours from my door, is half jew/half Catholic money. My daughter, my little E-5 in the Army in Southern Command has been shot at by human smugglers with Israeli flags on their trucks. Not narcos; like the Mob, they have well established roles. So-called Catholic Charities is a money-laundering organization to gut America.
You do good work and I enjoy your posts, SL.
Full disclosure: I am Roman Catholic but, for example, do not think Bergolio is Pope. The See is empty.
@TrevorGoodchild@SavvyLevie@Kerosene While not knowing this technicality, I have know for years that the sense of smell was essentially the brain itself, a vestigial of the original sense. Gandalf had it right: "Always follow your nose."
@KarlDahl@sickburnbro@judgedread I'm 2/3 the way thru F:WTC*, and am learning so much. Josef's story is great, but I find myself paging back to grasp the byzantine politics.
He's grown so much. You are a hella writer... And his dream sequence was seriously effed up.
*Lots of RealLife over the last few months; apologies.
@LawrenceGerald@NatalieTBP@Basketball_Jesus@ChairmanO15@DurpState We Catholics have come to terms with cremation. At the Second Coming, will we be perfectly reunited with our bodies? Yes. Is it for me to put God in a box and say how our bodies are disposed of until then? No.
I'll look at the Ballinger area. I just want to sit and tell the stories He gives me.
@TrevorGoodchild@pepsi_man@Terry@mullvad I'm trying to recall the quote, Dalrymple?, who said a feature of communism is to force everyone into pretending the lies are real, thus compromising everyone's soul.
@KarlDahl@sickburnbro One of the features of my future history are the Brother- and Sisterhoods, based on the Spartan model. A dozen kids, in at age 8 and out at 18. Self-directed. Lots of outdoor exercise, some classroom teaching, Bible study.
A huge force for social cohesion after the Breakup/Change.
@thefinn@s2208@zeke@DC5FAN I agree with that completely. Some kind of primary school for basic reading, writing, arithmetic. Beyond that? A third of the population are ditch diggers, most tradesmen or clerks, and a tiny fraction technicals or engineers.
SF writer with eighteen books - to date - of the future history of Machine Civilization. Semi-retired. Father of two wonderful, employed, debt-free daughters. Drunkard.