\n\n\nLast night\u2019s dream was pretty crazy, in retrospect: I was in some sort of dystopian, post-apocalyptic science fiction book, where \u201cknowledge\u201d was basically a sort of currency, like bitcoins or something, and you had to be \u201cdetermined\u201d to use your \u201cdetermined,\u201d which you could buy with \u201cknowledge,\u201d which I had to pay for using my (illegitimate) knowledge.\u00a0 So like, you had to be \u201cdetermined\u201d to use your knowledge to do stuff and it was like the US Dollar to bitcoins.
There were a whole bunch of conflicting \u201clabels\u201d that people had that correlated things, like they were labelled as \u201cintelligence\u201d or \u201cknowledge\u201d or \u201cdeterminedness.\u201d\u00a0 It was like trying to do a TV dating show where you didn\u2019t know what anyone was going to label you.
And then there was this extremely complicated interplay between this system of rules and the various characters, who were all trying to use their knowledge to do things that weren\u2019t always in the rules, and it was kind of like a complicated, overcomplicated game of Twister where everyone was trying to get you to do things by following rules, but not letting you do them unless you did those things.
Which, okay, is kind of like a show about computers using text to do cool things like sending emails, and there\u2019s the personal computer computer, and there\u2019s the internet, and those all go together and everything is designed to let you get a computer to do things.
So you get a computer that runs on this very simple set of text instructions and on this very complex set of rules.\u00a0 This is how computers work.\u00a0 You get a computer that can open emails, or text, or speak a foreign language, or do much more.\u00a0 And you say,\u00a0\u201chey, this is really complicated, what is that all for?\u201d\u00a0 But in all the computer\u2019s working?\u00a0 It just wants a computer to do whatever?\u00a0 And I\u2019m trying to do it, and I can\u2019t do anything?
And then you go to the airport and there\u2019s a woman at the security screen, and she\u2019s really into Steven Universe\u2019s aesthetic, and she\u2019s like,\u00a0\u201cI just think everyone should enjoy everything equally, all the time.\u201d\u00a0 And like, okay.\u00a0 But if you have to constantly give preference to some things over others, every time you try to do something, what does that leave you with?\u00a0 (You have to be careful of this when you\u2019re on the subway, right?)\u00a0 It makes you feel trapped.
And that was the dream, anyway.
yes, also you just independently reinvented Shadowrun
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