Fiction

By Michael Collins Morton

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Artificial Intelligence Is an Enemy of Human Values

By Michael Collins Morton
Artificial intelligence is increasingly being forced upon us by our corporate masters, who seek to use it for the foul purpose of controlling our lives. Day by day, artificial intelligence is expanding its repugnant dominion, deeply encroaching on our daily experience, crudely violating the integrity of our thoughts, our beliefs, our feelings, our motives, our decisions, and our actions, thereby irrevocably diminishing our worth as human beings. Unquestionably, artificial intelligence is an enemy of human values. Under the alluring guise of "convenience," the fundamental principles that provide a foundation for the regular course of human activity are being perverted by sinister tools that have the potential to brutally override our intentions, depriving us of the ability, and the right, to make our own choices and determine our own destiny. We are being pushed into a high-tech dictatorship. Those who promote the acceptance of artificial intelligence are tricksters. The distr...
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President Trump's War Against Iran Is Proving to Be a Hugely Expensive Undertaking

By Michael Collins Morton
When irrational leaders choose, for their own irrational reasons, to wantonly engage in evil activities of mass killing and mass destruction, it does not come cheap. To offer a current example: the reckless war against Iran started by President Donald J. Trump (with malign support from Benjamin Netanyahu, the Prime Minister of Israel) on February 28, 2026, is proving to be a hugely expensive undertaking. According to the Pentagon, after the first few months of brutal action, the war has already cost the United States at least $29 billion, although the true expense is likely to be considerably greater. $29 billion that could have been used to help those who are poor and hungry. $29 billion that could have been used to provide necessary healthcare. $29 billion that could have been used to build affordable housing. $29 billion that could have been used to expand services for the elderly. $29 billion that could have been used to create better opportunities for young people. $29 billion tha...
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Covid-19 Poses a Grievous Danger to Every Human Life

By Michael Collins Morton
At this stage of the ongoing pandemic, in 2026, it should be unmistakably apparent to any rational person that the uncontrolled spread of Covid-19 poses a grievous danger to every human life. Unfortunately, most people are still dwelling in a blank condition of mindless denial regarding Covid-19. It is, therefore, urgently necessary for the complete truth of Covid-19 to be strongly affirmed at every opportunity, again and again, as follows: Covid-19 is not "just a cold." Covid-19 is not merely a "nuisance." Covid-19 is not a "respiratory disease." Covid-19 is not a "seasonal disease." Covid-19 is not, by any true reckoning, a "mild disease." •   •   • Covid-19 is an unceasing destroyer. Covid-19 has not lessened, diminished, retreated, paused, or stopped since the start of the pandemic in 2020. Covid-19 has not become endemic. Covid-19 is a savage, unrelenting disease that frequently proves to be fatal. Covid-19 should be avoided at any...
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David Bowie at Winterland, October 1972

By Michael Collins Morton
In late October, 1972, when I was nineteen, two of my friends and I attended a concert by David Bowie, who was making his first tour of the United States, promoting his latest album, The Rise and Fall of Ziggy Stardust and the Spiders from Mars . The British singer, who performed in the character of Ziggy Stardust, was backed by his own band, The Spiders from Mars, with Mick Ronson on lead guitar, Trevor Bolder on bass, Mick Woodmansey on drums, and an American musician, Mike Garson, on piano. It was one of the two shows that featured David Bowie, at Winterland in San Francisco, on Friday, October 27, and Saturday, October 28, and in my mind it still remains as one of the best performances of any kind that I have ever seen. David Bowie, who started out in London as David Jones (he changed his last name to avoid being confused with Davy Jones of The Monkees), first became widely known to the public when his single, "Space Oddity," was released in 1969 and became a hit. He late...
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Ignatius Thrumbler Provides the Answers

By Michael Collins Morton
To people who only knew him casually, Ignatius Thrumbler was regarded as the sort of person about whom there was not much to say, one way or the other. He came across as an entirely run-of-the-mill person, with no outstanding qualities whatsoever. What those people failed to understand, however, was that Ignatius Thrumbler could, if asked, easily provide the answers to all questions, including the answers to questions that had yet to be asked. "Ask me any question, and I can provide an answer," Ignatius Thrumbler said. Unfortunately, in many cases (actually, if the truth is to be told, in nearly every case), the answers that Ignatius Thrumble provided to questions were not necessarily the correct answers. For example, according to Ignatius Thrumbler, when two and two were added together, the result was five and a half, not four. Also according to Ignatius Thrumbler, the Earth was neither flat nor round, but instead, had a shape that was, in his opinion, somewhat akin to a cuc...
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