There is a peculiar superstition in declining societies that saying something is approximately equivalent to doing something, and the superstition becomes stronger precisely as the society becomes less capable of accomplishing anything difficult. A committee announces a strategy and behaves as though it has pursued one; an institution publishes a declaration and congratulates itself for…
Tag: Agency
Not Just NPCs
Everybody calls everybody an NPC now. That’s the great insult of the age. NPC. Like the fellow saying it has uncovered a secret code in the universe. But I don’t know. I’ve met people. They’re not robots. Robots are built for a purpose. That already gives them a leg up. No, people are something stranger….