Sarah A. Hoyt's Blog, page 9

Winning Is A Possibility

Listen here: Everything is not crappy. That’s just a lie Big Crap tells you.

The future isn’t written in stone. Or if you prefer there is a strong possibility that, in the words of my generation, “The future is so bright I got to to wear shades.”

Look, it’s not guaranteed. The future never is. And we will have to work a lot and do our best to get there.

But the work might not be as insanely difficult as you’re anticipating right now. And we’re not going to have to be hip deep in blo...

The Superior Ones

Hi. I have bad news. Then again, I have good news.

Spoiler: It’s the same news.

The bad news is: I’m sorry, no one is coming to rescue you. No one even knows what rescuing you would entail. Not in the long run.

We are largely on our own surrounded by people no smarter or more capable than us. It’s up to you. And me. And all our friends and relatives. We have to, somehow, rescue ourselves.

The good news is: No one can plan the future and make it work exactly as it should with ama...

A Sorry Excuse For A Post

I’m sorry, I’m sorry, I’m sorry.

I slept till eleven thirty, which hopefully resets the cycle that has been getting more and more out of control since I had trouble with the typesetting. At least I slept eight hours.

As to why I was so late yesterday, well, I was fighting Midjourney. You see, it would have been perfectly fine if I had just put up the book firs typesetting. But having to re-typeset (And still no idea if the program will accept it, because–) led to Dan questioning the c...

The Means of War

Cheer up. We’re winning the long war.

And now you’re staring at me as though I’ve lost my mind. I might have. I was fighting typesetting till late last night. But I don’t think so.

It occurred to me sometime ago that we were in a long, sustained war since the beginning of the 20th century. It’s just that war has morphed and gone underground, by other means.

Look, part of this was America’s showing in WWII. Not that it was bad, but that it was very, very good and it showed the ideolo...

Perfect

I don’t know who needs to hear this.

You’re not perfect. I’m definitely not perfect. And that’s okay.

All right, so I know exactly who needs to hear that. And that’s me, here behind the eyes. Because I’m really upset at myself for this last week and then this weekend…

Why you ask? Well, because nothing went according to plan. Mostly the “nothing” hinged on adventures in publishing. I somehow managed to delete the typeset version of No Man’s Land Vol. 1 just before I realized I had a...

The Memes Don’t Lie

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The Old Beast

Two days ago I I wrote about tribalism and said tribalism always loses to the Western association by affinity (no, this is not tribalism.) and allegiance to nation states. There was the usual skepticism in response because tribalism confers advantages if not punished, in an otherwise civilized society. Note the begs.

I didn’t have time to unpack it in that post which was already overlong and besides it was close to two am when I was writing it, so I shall unpack now.

The reason for tha...

The Writer And The Forces of Evil

Sarah Hoyt’s life the last two days. Artistic rendition. Fake but accurate.

The person who completed the title with “Are natural allies” can stay after school to help scrub the old gum from under the desks, thank you so much.

This is in lieu of “this is not a post” mostly because I meant to write a post early this morning and instead ended up chatting with friends. Sigh.

Writers these days, no discipline, no pride of hustle, no–

Okay, the problem is I couldn’t write it yesterday bec...

Speaking Out

The government doesn’t grant you your fundamental rights. You have those by virtue of being human.

Good governments protect them. Bad governments violate them. The fact that they can, and do violate them doesn’t mean they never existed. In fact, arguably, the fact they violate them means they exist.

Which is why I was completely befuddled when I was told that no, of course these aren’t natural rights, since if they were we wouldn’t need a bill of rights to protect them.

I think I me...

Tribalism

Tribalism is the bane of mankind.

If there really were no great civilizations before ours, the fault would be squarely laid at the feet of tribalism.

To the extent the West has managed to take humanity further — further away from want, further away from famine, further away from the misery of barbarism — it is because through a combination of historical, philosophical and religious circumstances, the west (some places to a higher extent than others) came to view humans as all (more or ...