defiant isolationism
"Defiant Isolationism," October 12, 2022 (#285)
title from "Teenagers Are Telling Us That Something Is Wrong With America" by Jamieson Webster (October 11, 2022)
Ender's Game by Orson Scott Card (1985)
Endless Forms: The Secret World of Wasps by Seirian Sumner (2022)
last line from The Restaurant at the End of the Universe by Douglas Adams (1980)
Defiant Isolationism
I'm sorry if you're lonely and afraid. But the buggers are out there
that we notice when they cross our paths. It’s an awful shame that
you've frozen two enemy soldiers in the same battle. This order is out
poised to launch a front-line defence should a plucky predator attempt
world domination seriously, as a danger to existing governments. But they
are no more likely to transmit their genes to the next generation than
the newer ones are having trouble because they never really mastered some
form of learning, in which ambiguous links between two or more stimuli are
far away and flat; the ground, lacking the upward curve of Battle School floors
on these forest floors, which may explain why there has been strong selection,
will be delighted to welcome your visits, sympathy, and happy tales of the outside world.
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