The downside of propaganda is that it pollutes your feedback. It means you can no longer accurately measure the real patterns in society. You're basically pissing in your petri dishes and wondering why your mold cultures never grow in vitro when they grow just fine in vivo.
All hail Lords Steven of Hallas and Ellis of Weiner! Outstanding work, gentles! Would that I still had vassals and retainers, they would visit with coin and treasures afoot!
I've jumped ahead, not yet perusing your excellent and intricate prose, yet given the previous chapters, rest assured the final chapter will be a 13 out of 10, M'Lords!
I offered my thanks on the "The Split" stack, but let me repeat them here for a heckin' good story; and I look forward to buying a copy of it in the near future.
Getting each chapter in my email on Sundays and then on Wonkette on Mondays has, weirdly, been one of those little things to look forward to every week for the past year. Now that it's done, I may go back to the beginning and read it through again without having to wait for a new chapter. Thanks, Steve and Ellis—and Wonkette, for presenting it. It's been a helluva ride.
It's more than a little unnerving to recognize how close our current cantankerous geographical and sociological realities have been to precipitating exactly such a SPLIT in the United States. This engaging fiction is all too entirely close to what HAS actually been occuring here.
Tomorrow has to be the first chapter in a new, forward-thinking, Democratic reality.
Thank you SO much for this compelling story. It has had my wheels turning since the first chapter.
Wow, what an odyssey! I'm happy that in the end Lorinda is gonna be just fine.
So many thanks to you both for an engaging story, one that could be more reality than fiction if we let it. Tomorrow's vote will help us chart that course. Let's choose sanity!
Thank for such an insightful look at where things could go. I think my favorite description were of the mini-cults, the enclaves. Brilliant!
Ta, Steve and Ellis. You didn't just wrap this up, you tied it in a bow! I've enjoyed this trip.
I saved up 13 chapters, so I'll read those in a week or so.
By then it'll be clear whether this country is headed for a split or not. But I'm optimistic that Harris/Walz will win in a commanding landslide.
Well, my optimism was sorely misplaced.
The downside of propaganda is that it pollutes your feedback. It means you can no longer accurately measure the real patterns in society. You're basically pissing in your petri dishes and wondering why your mold cultures never grow in vitro when they grow just fine in vivo.
Bravo!
All hail Lords Steven of Hallas and Ellis of Weiner! Outstanding work, gentles! Would that I still had vassals and retainers, they would visit with coin and treasures afoot!
I've jumped ahead, not yet perusing your excellent and intricate prose, yet given the previous chapters, rest assured the final chapter will be a 13 out of 10, M'Lords!
This really needs to be a book - a printed one, that can be in indie bookstores and on best-seller lists....
Thanks, fellas. An entertaining read and a timely warning.
Thank you writers! It's a great story -- I hope you can get it published (outside of Wonkette, if there really is such a place.)
P.S. I am all for the Split.
I offered my thanks on the "The Split" stack, but let me repeat them here for a heckin' good story; and I look forward to buying a copy of it in the near future.
Thanks for a thoroughly entertaining and eye-opening novel.
Getting each chapter in my email on Sundays and then on Wonkette on Mondays has, weirdly, been one of those little things to look forward to every week for the past year. Now that it's done, I may go back to the beginning and read it through again without having to wait for a new chapter. Thanks, Steve and Ellis—and Wonkette, for presenting it. It's been a helluva ride.
It's more than a little unnerving to recognize how close our current cantankerous geographical and sociological realities have been to precipitating exactly such a SPLIT in the United States. This engaging fiction is all too entirely close to what HAS actually been occuring here.
Tomorrow has to be the first chapter in a new, forward-thinking, Democratic reality.
Thank you SO much for this compelling story. It has had my wheels turning since the first chapter.
Thank you again, Ellis and Stephen. I hope to see the whole work published and in my public library. I look forward to more of your writing.
Wow, what an odyssey! I'm happy that in the end Lorinda is gonna be just fine.
So many thanks to you both for an engaging story, one that could be more reality than fiction if we let it. Tomorrow's vote will help us chart that course. Let's choose sanity!
Thank you! its been a treat to read - or maybe horrific. One of the two anyway