Playground

by Richard Powers

Facebook and WhatsApp and TikTok and Bitcoin and QAnon and Alexa and Google Maps and smart tracking ads based on keywords stolen from your emails and checking your likes while at a urinal and shopping while naked and insanely stupid but addictive farming games that wrecked people’s careers and all the other neural parasites that now make it impossible for me to remember what thinking and feeling and being were really like, back then? Not even close.

eggplant is the only remotely believable proof of intelligent design.

“Aristotle said that happiness is the settling of the soul into its most appropriate spot.”