2026.03.18
"We understand many things imperfectly," Harlow conceded. "But however contentious a matter might be, my own counsel would always be to avoid taking a position that justifies barbarity."
Latifa had always feared that civilization would be brought down by people with thirty-second attention spans, but now she was beginning to suspect that the greater danger came from those who could sit through three-hour vodcasts, robbed of the ordinary human reflexes that should have compelled them to switch to something new instead of marinating in the stream of inanities.
He needed to spend an hour with a book, a game, or a TV show, just to lay down a clear memory that separated each day from the next, or he ended up back at his desk in the morning feeling like he'd never been away.