Petals Floating By, Drift Through My Woman's

Seldom Does A Storytelling Talent Come Along As Potent And Fully Mature As Mike Brotherton. His Complex Characters Take You On A Voyage That Is Both Fiercely Credible And Astonishingly Imaginative. This Is Science Fiction.

In Contrast, Markets - Oft Mythologized As "natural" Are The Most Unnatural Things Going. Libertarians Will Tell You "market Laws Are Laws Of Nature", What Baloney. Markets - And The Other Great Modernist Cornucopian Tools - Are Magnificent Wealth Generating Machines, Built Ad-hoc, Through Trial And Error, Constantly Fine-tuned And Refined, Tinkered, Adjusted.

It's How Creativity Works. Especially In Humans. For Every Good Idea, Ten Thousand Idiotic Ones Must First Be Posed, Sifted, Tried Out, And Discarded. A Mind That's Afraid To Toy With The Ridiculous Will Never Come Up With The Brilliantly Original.

Cultural Contamination That Is Directed Outward Is Always Seen As ‘enlightenment.'

Life Is Not Fair... Anyone Who Says It Is, Or Even That It Ought To Be, Is A Fool Or Worse.