There Is No Antimemetics Division

by qntm

Noise, Hughes always held, is a symptom of imperfect engineering.

"Ideas can be killed," she says, stepping into the airlock. "How?" "With better ideas."

If Adam Wheeler gave it some thought, or if someone were to prompt him with the right questions, he could put words around the fact that his existence doesn't bring him any satisfaction. He would discover, on introspection, that he's nowhere close, actually, to "happy", and that there is something vast and significant missing from his life. But he doesn't give it any thought. There's a void between him and those questions. Objectively, academically, his life is great.

he seems to exist in a kind of long shadow, cast by a vast class of thoughts which he is unable to think.

'SCP-3125 represents an omniversal-scale threat. It threatens neighbouring realities to ours. It threatens microverses within our macroverse. It threatens universes which embed ours as fiction—'"