I reached back to 6.952. in order to think about that time and place where I was talking about the Garbage in, garbage out philosophy. That was a real one back then, and I see now how my kids have totally fallen into a cycle of nothing but that. Here is what it looks like: An hour or two of Apex, an hour of bad youtube, back to Apex, back to youtube. Pause to shower and or play games solo. Back to Youtube. Back to Apex. Watch some Anime… repeat. I’ve been studying this cycle for about Three months now and it does not change other than what game and which particular youtube feed. Garbage breeds more garbage and a universe of understanding and being entertained by garbage.
I was in the muck of it when I wrote my last novel and now that I’m working on the new one I am hyper aware of the quality of what is going into my brainspace. I’m watching better TV (I hope) and really thinking about and diving into story with purpose. I have something to say this time. I want that Gibson level awareness with this sequel and I want to be able to point out a lot of the really dark crap that happens in a dystopian world. I missed that last time. It was way too clean and too easy for the protagonists. People gonna get hurt bad.