Having Department of Defense ghouls and their Raytheon and Lockheed-Martin contractors next to the weirdly occult-like on-stage microchipping demonstration (there was some blood, too) and seeing frustratingly-comfortable-looking rich fucks mingling with their sycophantic lower-rung tech workers and seriously discussing out loud what they imagined they might do with all of eternity to practice Manifest Destiny in space told me once and for all that future speculation as a hobby was thoroughly bought, sold, and traded by the monsters that are making the future a worsening nightmare as you read this.
Does a "Futurology" conference count as a party?
Having Department of Defense ghouls and their Raytheon and Lockheed-Martin contractors next to the weirdly occult-like on-stage microchipping demonstration (there was some blood, too) and seeing frustratingly-comfortable-looking rich fucks mingling with their sycophantic lower-rung tech workers and seriously discussing out loud what they imagined they might do with all of eternity to practice Manifest Destiny in space told me once and for all that future speculation as a hobby was thoroughly bought, sold, and traded by the monsters that are making the future a worsening nightmare as you read this.