A younger but fully grown-ass person working behind the counter of a bookshop had to ask me how to spell 'traitor' this afternoon.
Tell me our brains aren't being turned to shit by social media and the endless AI-style lazy paths so accessible in the first world today.
Was looking for this, btw (and they had it):
https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/253399/the-spy-and-the-traitor-by-ben-macintyre/
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![One could be in the room with you now, just to your left. You could be seeing it right nowâbut from this second to the next, youâll forget that you did. If you managed to jot down a note, the paper would look blank to you afterward.
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And they arenât just feeding on us. Theyâre invading.
But how do you fight an enemy when you can never even know that youâre at war? How do you contain something you canât record or remember?
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No, this is not your first day.
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These entities can feed on your most cherished memories, the things that make you youâand youâll never even know anything changed.
They can turn you into a living ghostâmake it so youâre standing next to your spouse, screaming in their ear, and they wonât know youâre there.
Theyâre predators equipped with the ultimate camouflage, living black holes for information, able to consume our very memories of their existence.
And they arenât just feeding on us. Theyâre invading.
But how do you fight an enemy when you can never even know that youâre at war? How do you contain something you canât record or remember?
Welcome to the Antimemetics Division.
No, this is not your first day.
NATIONAL BESTSELLER ⢠Humanity is under assault by malevolent âantimemesââideas that attack memory, identity, and the fabric of reality itselfâin this whip-smart tale of science-fiction horror, an entirely reimagined and expanded version of the beloved online novel.
âUtterly brilliant . . . a dazzling, confusing novel with a highly effective, creeping sense of dread . . . I canât recommend it enough.ââCharlie Jane Anders, The Washington Post
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