Two people can look at the same thing, but see completely different things. And the way that they see it seems completely obvious and unambiguous to them. To the point where it’s hard to understand how anyone could claim to see anything else.
Scott Alexander is a fantastic author. Most of his other work isn’t so realistic though, for example “Universal Love, Said the Cactus Person” has the protagonist in a DMT trip alternating between nonsense poetry describing the environment and trying to convince his hallucinations to do a math problem he can’t in order to prove that they’re real that involves explaining enlightenment with a car analogy. He also wrote “A Modern Myth” that’s about Greek gods in the modern world (for example Eris hosts a daytime talk show, Ares is a soldier, Zeus owes child support for 200 kids, etc) and spun a story out of a meme image about picking a pill to get a superpower.
Probably his best is a lengthy piece titled UNSONG that’s an absolute master class in foreshadowing, and involves the works of William Blake, Jewish mysticism, and an answer to the question of evil.
To me, it feels like an especially weak attempt at a scissor statement.
Wow, that story was a wild ride. Thank you for sharing. While it’s tagged
fiction, it’s a real sounding account and had me really thinking there.Scott Alexander is a fantastic author. Most of his other work isn’t so realistic though, for example “Universal Love, Said the Cactus Person” has the protagonist in a DMT trip alternating between nonsense poetry describing the environment and trying to convince his hallucinations to do a math problem he can’t in order to prove that they’re real that involves explaining enlightenment with a car analogy. He also wrote “A Modern Myth” that’s about Greek gods in the modern world (for example Eris hosts a daytime talk show, Ares is a soldier, Zeus owes child support for 200 kids, etc) and spun a story out of a meme image about picking a pill to get a superpower.
Probably his best is a lengthy piece titled UNSONG that’s an absolute master class in foreshadowing, and involves the works of William Blake, Jewish mysticism, and an answer to the question of evil.
God damn, I’ll be thinking about Shiri’s Scissors for a while now.