Rainbows End

“Those sci-fi bastards are just getting what they deserve. For thirty years they had literature education hijacked—and this is what all their reductionism has gotten them. Good riddance.”

In the modern world, success came from having the largest possible educated population and providing those hundreds of millions of creative people with credible freedom.

Ms. Chumlig said the secret of success was “to learn to ask the right questions.” But to do that she also said you had “to know something about something.”

Learning a language, or a career specialty, changes a person. Cram in such skills willy-nilly and you distort the underlying personality.

If you turned off all the game views, you could see other players wandering through the woods in their own worlds.

Now when he looked at a real object in “just that way,” explanations would pop up. With the proper squint or stare at attendant icons, he got the added detail he wanted. Look at the object a different way, and he often could see through and beyond it!

But if you really want to see it, just look on the net. The Chinese have it pretty well meshed. And their special servers are really clever.”

This was a collision of belief circles. The point was to convince the wider world by belief and images that Scooch-a-mout’s was the greater vision.

“And that’s the trouble with people nowadays. They’ve traded freedom for security. When I was a young man, the cops didn’t live in every widget, and there wasn’t some clown collecting royalties on every keystroke.