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THE PERFECT MATCH

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i really hated this one lol. it read like the first draft of a black mirror pastiche. the algorithmic redlining thing didn't even make sense

Liu, K. (2016). THE PERFECT MATCH. In Liu, K. The Paper Menagerie and Other Stories. Gallery / Saga Press, pp. 26-50

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Sai let go of Jenny’s hand and turned back to Rinn. “Maybe they did use me. But they’re right. You’ve turned the world into a panopticon and all the people in it into obedient puppets that you nudge this way and that just so you’d make more money.”

“You yourself pointed out that we were fulfilling desires, lubricating the engine of commerce in an essential way.”

“But you also fulfill dark desires.” He remembered again the abandoned houses by the side of the road, the pockmarked pavement.

????? thinking undialectically

—p.47 by Ken Liu 3 years, 6 months ago

Sai let go of Jenny’s hand and turned back to Rinn. “Maybe they did use me. But they’re right. You’ve turned the world into a panopticon and all the people in it into obedient puppets that you nudge this way and that just so you’d make more money.”

“You yourself pointed out that we were fulfilling desires, lubricating the engine of commerce in an essential way.”

“But you also fulfill dark desires.” He remembered again the abandoned houses by the side of the road, the pockmarked pavement.

????? thinking undialectically

—p.47 by Ken Liu 3 years, 6 months ago