“The Mandate is simultaneously deeply interested in science and utterly hates it,” I tell him. “Science is what gives them their legitimacy. Their… mandate, actually. Their justification for doing everything they do is that they have a logical, rational piece of thinking, which means it’s the best way to do things for the greatest number of people. So they love science, because it gives them permission to do all the shit they do. Right up to the point someone puts together an inconvenient but cogent argument that gets in the way of how they want the universe to be. They want very specific
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