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But I Realized Something. About Art. And Psychiatry. They're Both Self-perpetuating Systems. Like Religion. All Three Of Them Promise You A Sense Of Inner Worth And Meaning, And Spend A Lot Of Time Telling You About The Suffering You Have To Go Through To Achieve It.

Discourse Says, 'you Are.' Rhetoric Preserves The Freedom To Say, 'i Am Not.

Honesty Is The Best Policy ; A Policy Is, After All, A Strategy For Living In The Polis In The City.

Many Of The Early Greats Of Sf — Hugo Gernsback (publisher Of Amazing Stories) In Particular — Saw Themselves As Educators. The Didactic Thrust Of Science Fiction Got The Genre Initially Pegged As Children's Fare. It Was Seen, At Its Best, As An Extension Of School And, At Its Worst, As Teenage Wish Fulfillment.

Pain ... After You've Lived With It Long Enough, Isn't Pain Anymore. It's Something Else.