Absolutely. It drives me fucking crazy every time I hear the Democrats lament that they lost because they couldn’t get their message through to the people. Fuckers, that’s absolutely ass-backwards. We’re trying to get our message through to you and time and time again, you pretend not to hear us. Is it any wonder at all?

Hope you enjoy! It’s getting referenced so much these days, I think I’m due for a reread myself.

Oh yes, I think Peter Watts is a great author. He’s very good at tackling high concept ideas while also keeping it fun and interesting. Blindsight has a vampire in it in case there wasn’t already enough going on for you 😁

Unrelated to the topic at hand, I also highly recommend Starfish by him. It was the first novel of his I read. A dark, psychological thriller about a bunch of misfits working a deep sea geothermal power plant and how they cope (or don’t) with the situation at hand.

Blindsight mentioned!

The only explanation is that something has coded nonsense in a way that poses as a useful message; only after wasting time and effort does the deception becomes apparent. The signal functions to consume the resources of a recipient for zero payoff and reduced fitness. The signal is a virus.

This has been my biggest problem with it. It places a cognitive load on me that wasn’t there before, having to cut through the noise.