Wrong 1 - by Neal Stephenson - Graphomane
During COVID I went down something of a rabbit hole on the subject of wrongness, and wrote some essays into a OneDrive folder that I had established on a new PC. Then they disappeared for a couple of years (probably because of operator error) and I couldn’t find them. Fortuitously, they warped back into existence right around the time of the recent election, and I’ve been kicking through them.
In the meantime, of course, I happened to establish this Substack. So I will post them here when they’re decent. This will be the first of those. I don’t know when the others will be ready. Currently I’m heads down writing the second book in the Bomb Light series, and so it’s going to be sporadic.
There are a lot of different religions. They can’t all be right. If you’re non-religious, you believe that all religious people are wrong. If you believe in a specific religion, you believe that all of the non-religious people, as well as all of the people who believe in a different religion from yours, are wrong.
We didn’t even know about germs until less than 200 years ago. Before then, everyone who had an opinion about infectious disease was wrong.
