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“The Americans talked a lot about ideals, but their morals were as flexible as anyone else’s.”

No lies detected

"It was all just bots talking to datajinns talking to deepfakes talking to digisapiens. He had read somewhere that 99 percent of the traffic on the web these days was between AIs."

This sounds omious, but I can totally see how this is the destination we're hurling towards.

This one is taking me a bit to get into, but I want to finish it...

“However, because we have chosen, as a society, to make artists dependent upon the market, we’ve also always believed—implicitly or otherwise—in an equivalence between what is artistically worthy and what fetches the highest price.”

“Elli and I are kindred souls, you know?

That’s why we dreamed together.

In the same way that she saw me for who I really was as she guided me through my truest fantasies, I saw her for who she really was: a butterfly trapped by the web of this world’s little minds.”

This stan POV is the ultimate ick

“But in that dream with Elli… he felt seen. What a cliché that was, but that was precisely how he felt. In the darkness of that theater, on the verge of sleep and wakefulness, she had made him see that he was the hero of a story, a grand epic that was so much more interesting than any story others could have told about him. He could see that she understood him, saw the grandness of his soul.”

The villain is a STAN??

“Immigrants, especially immigrants like her, weren’t supposed to criticize America—they were supposed to be docile, to fit in, to be grateful. If they were to be political at all, they should reserve their censure for the lands they had departed so that they could confirm the very American opinion that America is the greatest land on earth. But her mother had a different view....”

Pretty good. Though a bit of the plot line is a bit on the nerdy side needing clarification towards the end. Now all that’s needed is for this to be made into a movie!