“It never delights anyone to find their favorite belief system archived in the Library of Lies, but most of them don’t get truly angry about it until they discover that it’s in the catalog under ‘philosophical weapons’.”
– Clovis Sjarra, Librarian Excellence
[Based, obviously, upon this.] This inscription is a warning and a safeguard. Pay attention to it! Sending this message was important to us. We considered ourselves to be a wise culture. Though we may have failed, we wish for you to succeed. This place is not a place of honor.
(Today, two words for the price of one!) The fragrant smoke of jernja cigars drifted across the fantastically carved wooden balcony of the building, one of the many in the Repository of All Knowledge’s complex, where two eldrae were enjoying the changing light as twilight fell across Calmiríë. “Have
“Always remember: memetics is no more and no less than the science of ideas. Applied memetics, therefore, is no more and no less than advanced persuasion. Memetics cannot impose ways of thought. Memetics alone cannot correct biases, or determine truth, or override the will. And no memetic technology can force
Provocogen COG Provocogen COG is unusual among the ranks of Citizen Oversight Groups in that, while generally acknowledged as serving a socially useful purpose, everyone individually would much rather be spared its attentions. Provocogen, as its name might suggest, is a manufacturer of meme-allergens and other informational toxins. Extending the
No discussion of approaches to gender in the Associated Worlds would be complete without mention of the peculiar customs of the mourcalt of the Trailing Assembly. The mourcalt‘s biology gave them an exceptional degree of sexual dimorphism, which is typically correlated with strong gender archetypes, as indeed it was
From: Tiryns Anandonos (AIB) To: Academician Iliys Roquentius; Academician Meris Tarisia Subject: Incident 7922/0011867 Gentlesophs, It is certainly the case that research into self-concealing patterns of information (so-called cryptomemes) is important, as is research into their applicability to and existence in the living world. This is only the more