Extremes lead to extremes and then back around. What we saw after the Olympics was the outspoken optimism turning to fear-mongering pessimism. Vice-versa had happened after Portugal, and vice-versa of that after Australia.
On and on these cycles run, as predictably as the planet turns, and just as unstoppable.
What’s also interesting to me is how fiction writers have always severely overestimated the power of telepathy, and that of emotion control.
To assume that a mind could be perfectly identified and picked out of a crowd any easier than a face was the height of exaggerations. It is far harder to recognize someone’s mind. Likewise, controlling someone’s mind, as in changing one’s thoughts and opinions, is an endeavor far more complex than some might think. It has been described as ch
