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The Ecuadorian Library: Or Three Years After 'The Blast Shack' by Bruce Sterling (medium.com)

22 points by evanh2002 ↗ HN
Back in distant, halcyon 2010, I was asked to write something about Wikileaks and its Cablegate scandal. So, I wrote a rather melancholy essay about how things seemed to me to be going — dreadfully, painfully, like some leaden and ancient Greek tragedy. ...I no longer feel that leaden discontent and those grave misgivings that I felt in 2010. The situation now is frankly exhilarating. It no longer has that look-and-feel of the Edgar Allen Poe House of Usher. This scene is straight outta Nikolai Gogol.

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sinkasapa
Is this an accurate depiction of Russians?
e3pi
"And yet the three of them together, they look just amazing. They are fantastic figures, like the promise of otherworldly aid from a superhero comic. They are visibly stronger than they’ve ever been before. They have the initiative in a world afflicted with comprehensive helplessness.

And there’s more coming. Lots, lots more."

Grand theater and great pic, Bruce. You and Vince Gillian I hope are writing the screenplay.

jblow
How does this not have more upvotes?
userulluipeste
I for one do not see this worth upvoting. Even if it has some good (even admirable) ideas, they are buried in a lot of noise. After reading the whole thing I find it resembling more to a writing exercise than to an article that wants to say something.