Any topic is good. Don’t care about format or where it’s published as long as I can access it (substack, random PDF, journal, etc). Looking for deep and rare thought, but essay length for a short reading.
EDIT: Also I am particularly looking for stuff not as much in online or nerd culture.
How about HG Wells talking about mini wargaming in 1912? I think it’s fascinating to see proto-nerds inventing the geek stuff that we take for granted a hundred years later.
Little Wars via Project Gutenberg
And a subtitle that he probably thought was egalitarian and progressive at the time.
Yeah, that’s pretty bad.
I still think it’s an interesting read.
All good. It’s something I’d like to play sometime. I just think it’s important to acknowledge this shit.
Yeah, I’d have left a misogyny warning if I’d remembered that part. Thanks for the note.