Zyr

Incidently, here is the sequel, The Religion War.


Talking about the response to the previous book:

"Other people wrote angry letters and scathing reviews, pointing
out the logical and factual flaws in the book. It is full of flaws,
and much of the science is made up, as it states in the introduction.
I explained that the reader is supposed to be looking for flaws.
That's what makes the experiment work. You might think this
group of readers skipped the introduction and missed the stated
point of the book, but I suspect that something else is going on.
People get a kind of cognitive dissonance (brain cramp) when
their worldview is disturbed. It's fun to watch."

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"Oh, irony! Oh, no, no, we don't get that here. See, uh, people ski topless here while smoking dope, so irony's not really a high priority. We haven't had any irony here since about, uh, '83 when I was the only practitioner of it, and I stopped because I was tired of being stared at."

Omnia mutantu, nos et mutamur in illis.
All things change, and we change with them.
- Neil Gaiman, Marvel 1602