Ice-Nine for Markets

1 · Stephen Diehl · Nov. 23, 2021, midnight
Ice-Nine for Markets Every couple of years I go back and read the science fiction classics, which to some of us is a kind of secular canon. And most recently I’d revisited Vonnegut’s underappreciated novel Cat’s Cradle. Although it was a novel whose themes are set against the backdrop of the Cold War and nuclear proliferation, its themes feel as fresh and relevant to the present moment as they did back in the 1970s. At heart it’s a book about the dangers inherent in the struggle between nihilism...