> You remember what it was like to be emotional, you empathize, but decisions must be strictly non-impulsive. Bruce Sterling called that group "Zen Serotonin"

> You remember what it was like to be emotional, you empathize, but decisions must be strictly non-impulsive. Bruce Sterling called that group "Zen Serotonin" in his novel Schismatreix[1] about posthuman ideologies. They enforced their "strictly non-impulsive" zen-like calm with biomonitor-regulated sci-fi drugs. They advocated strongly for social order and slowing the rate of social change. My username ("pdkl95") is based on the opposite ideology. It is another sci-fi drug from Schismatrix, used by another ideological faction to force (often destructively, as brain damage) a change in perspective; it forces someone out of the comfortably familiar paradigm that Zen Serotonin tried to maintain. This "clear delineation" between groups will eventually happen. All species eventually fracture into separate daughter-species. Instead of finding different ecological niches, human will speciate into different ideological niches. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Schismatrix#Ideologies https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Schismatrix#Ideologies