Bards, Robots, and Hordes

A treatise on defeat as an outcome not at all humiliating: sometimes, it is not triumph that determiners winner from loser. There follow three essays: on art; artificial intelligence; and mankind’s regression into the primitive commune known as a horde – an uncaring, uneducated, and untrusting population. It is about deception by ornament, an unusual orphanhood, and conceptual deterioration… a conclusion just shy of optimistic goes without saying.