Elites & Psychopaths
Back in college, I would often see professors (and their insufferable TA’s) draw circles around particular phrases and statements in student papers and leave a question mark on the side. These question marks would often go unsubstantiated. What compelled them to mark up the passage in the first place? Was it confusion, incomprehension, dismay or disagreement?
Inspiration
I first had the idea of Alien Nation in the summer after high school. I was writing a short story titled The Artifice, inspired by 1984 and The Matrix, and as soon as I finished it, I thought about what I would write next. There was a feeling that had occupied my mind for some time, amplified by the uncertainty I felt after high school. I didn’t know what I wanted to do in life; everything seemed so distant and unreal.
