Cyberpunk, for all its faults, was 100% made by people who have lived lives. Who have known poverty, or loss, or sexual desire, or something! Anything!

Starfield feels like a game designed by Mormons who have never left their cul de sac and decided to lecture me about The Human Experience.

We are putting innocent people in wildcat internment camps where a steady stream of credible evidence and testimony reveals rampant torture, rape, and basic medical/sanitary deprivation and we get a press release about how Trump needs to respect the process.

drew it again

Don't mistake incompetence for accident. The degradation of your social media feed, the collapse of your news, the defunding of your school—it is all functional.

They are happy to rule over the ashes, as long as they are the ones holding the match.

This is the "Viva la Muerte" (Long Live Death) mindset. It is the joy of destruction found in the Spanish fascist hero General Millán Astray, who shouted down the philosopher Unamuno in 1936 at Salamanca.

When you cannot win the argument with intelligence, you destroy the intelligentsia.

History tells us where this "co-opt or destroy" scheme leads. In 1945, when it became clear he could not own the future of Germany, Hitler issued the "Nero Decree."

He ordered the destruction of his own country's infrastructure. If the nation wouldn't serve him, it didn't deserve to survive him.

Same with TikTok. We were told it was a "national security" threat. But the forced divestiture wasn't about data privacy.

It was about transfer of ownership. Handing the algorithm to politically safe tech oligarchs ensures that the last algorithmic feed not under their thumb is brought to heel.

Likewise, the "Compact for Academic Excellence" and the attacks on the Ivy League aren't about reform.

Nuance and critical theory are enemies to a movement built on myth. Since they can't force Harvard to teach their alternate reality, they will tax, sue, and harass it until it ceases to function.