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most of it gets spent on pornography, sugar water, and bombs. There is only so much that can be scraped together for particle accelerators.”
We, the theors, who had retreated (or, depending on how you liked your history, been herded) into the maths at the Reconstitution, had the power to change the physical world through praxis. Up to a point, ordinary people liked the changes we made. But the more clever the praxis became, the less people understood it and the more dependent they became on us—and they didn’t like that at all.
But some inscrutable law of traffic-jam dynamics dictated that those of us at the bottom were at a perfect standstill.
