@Caol_MacCormaic Technocrat who considers himself a humanist. Romney, Obama, most well-read guys in their 50s+ all have this vibe/politics. Nolan types would also defend private equity while doing single payer, or criticize redlining while shrugging at automated drone strike approvals.
@Caol_MacCormaic MCR has better albums. Queen has better singles.
I do think there's a secret sorta theatrical but not glam or gimmicky, fun-to-sing band that OP is hitting on. Not exactly sui generis but you throw in say, Sparks, and a pseudo-genre almost coheres.
@kit_sionn_witch It's the type of take which arrives to you when you are so deprived of communal ball knowledge, you don't already have a wife or girlfriend who has done her own reading on the Bronze Age collapse.
My account just got randomly locked. I cannot fathom why. Immediately able to re-access it. Assuming it randomly did it for past tweets expressing disdain for Elon? That's all I got.
No one will see this anyway.
Talked with my fave coworker abt books and that I'm reading a 700 page novel right now and i was like "What do you read atm" he said "Donald duck comics"
If you err even a single iota toward consciousness being an emergent property, replacing the matter of a brain exactly does not constitute the consciousness, memories, or personality attached. It would be immediately apparent we're just killing people to create husk copies.