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I’d seen more than a few instances of people being promoted into irrelevance to get them out of the way, or clawing their own way up the ladder into organizational oblivion.
To you, we must just� be here, then pfft, we’re gone,� Torina said. “Only from the perspective of a linear, incremental being, which I am not. I could say that you are effectively immortal beings as well, simply because the concept of you existing or not existing is simply one of perspective. To you, the time will come when you cease to exist as a locus of experience in this continuum. To me, that time has both passed and has yet to happen.�
“Nothing wrong with occasionally drinking alone, Gabby. I do it myself sometimes, just me and a glass of good bourbon. Bourbon always listens, and it never talks back. It’s when it becomes how you drink that it’s a problem.�
Newton’s First Law of Motion famously implies that things have inertia—on their own, they don’t want to change what they’re doing and only do so if something acts on them from outside. A car needs its wheels to turn, a ship needs thrust. It turns out that the zeitgeist is subject to the very same law. Outside of something big and catastrophic happening, it takes a lot for a whole population to change the way it starts believing about something. And our modern, always-on, permanently connected society is even more like that. Distrust of authorities and the media, the growing sense that things
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