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    1 year ago

    I recently read Neil Stephenson’s book called “Fall”, in which a significant chunk of the novel is set about 30 years in the future. At that point in time, large swathes of America are referred to as “Ameristan”, because they are break-away territories ruled by evangelical warlords. It feels surprisingly prescient.

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      1 year ago

      Neil Stephenson is a high effort author to read but the payoff more than makes up for it. I have yet to convince anyone else to read Snow Crash 😔

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        1 year ago

        Even my dad couldn’t convince me to read snowcrash😅 but maybe I’ll find it as an ebook

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          It took me like 4 attempts and 100 pages before I was able to get into it but it dramatically changed my understanding of reality

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      I think about the Ameristan stuff and people being “facebooked” all the time since reading that book. In the time since I read it I feel like we just keep getting closer and closer to that reality.

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      1 year ago

      More like the author read the writing on the wall for the past 50 years.