Thanks for the feedback. Conversations with readers are what make the whole enterprise worth doing.

I came to much the same idea about using world-building and stories to help people get around their delusions about the world. I wrote a couple novels that tried to explain a rational, sophisticated response to the particular craziness we see all around us right now. (Our lives seem to have become something like a William Gibson cyber-punk novel with James Bond movie villains.) Sales have been slow for Cult Smashers of the 21st Century! and The Climate Trials, but I’m still having fun.

I’m glad to see the Fediverse expanding, though. Lemmy, Mastodon, Pixelfed, etc, added to the Open Source movement give me hope that we can eventually create a society based on co-operation and intelligence instead of brute force and greed. The wisdom of age suggests, however, that if such a beast does come along it won’t be because of some master plan by the likes of us but because it spontaneously arose through some unknown self-organizing principle. Just because the Dao follows its own path doesn’t mean it won’t eventually end up in a better place.