[FRIAM] crackpots and privilege

[Roger Critchlow]

Google news decided to surface an article from Fortune today.  It's
headlined "Society's refusal to have enough babies is what will save it
from the existential threat of A. I., Eric Schmidt says".  The headline is
accompanied by a very serious head shot of Eric.  Nice try, Google, but
you're not sucking me down that rabbit hole.

Meanwhile, someone apparently read my mind about the rationality of
disaster prepping and wrote an epic novel about it 40 years ago in
Catalan.  The Garden of the Seven Twilights by Miquel de Palol is available
in English translation and as an ebook on overdrive.com at your local
library.  The narrator crosses refugee swamped Barcelona to check on his
mom and gets sent off by her to a McMansion'ed medieval monastery high in
the Pyrenees where the elite are amusing themselves with stories while
awaiting the resolution of the first war of entertainment.  Lots of stories
about themselves and their friends and acquaintances.

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