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Emily's avatar

Wow, this really landed with me today. Feel slightly obsessed with the sort of questions you are raised in this post, especially being both a huge Wendell Berry fan AND someone who doesn't want to dismiss new ways of being in the world and interacting with it.

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Glad to have come across your substack, David! So many great insights here, and so well conceptualized. In my science fiction novel Exogenesis I likewise imagined two groups, equivalent to your “People of the Earth” and “People of the Machine”, a few hundred years in the future, and the conflict between them. This tidy contrast works well in fiction, and as a frame of formal analysis, yet the reality might end up being a bit more messy, as actual history tends to be. Either way we are in for an interesting upheaval. I look forward to your writing!

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