I say, let's learn more and then speculate.
We’re long on high principles and short on simple human understanding.
Politics is good; when it works properly, disagreements get solved without people beating each other up. But when a regime knows its days are numbered, there's always the chance it may use its position to change the rules and make the debate it is losing irrelevant.
If there be only hours, at least learn what there is time to learn.
The voice was gentle, like a scalpel petting the short hairs of your throat.
The illusion of self-awareness. Happy automatons, running on trivial programs. I'll bet you never guess. From the inside, how can you?