# The World By Gaslight

Originally published: 2016-09-06
Canonical URL: /2016/Sep/the-world-by-gaslight/

In the oneiric methodlessness of my nightmare, I am a lieutenant commander posted to the _Glomar Explorer_; I am pacing the deck while opining that taking the correct, minority position in a scientific controversy [necessarily feels just like](http://zackmdavis.net/blog/2013/01/education-and-indoctrination-feel-the-same-from-the-inside/) early-onset dementia (which I can't help but notice makes a perfect pairing with a late-onset case of the other _d------ia_ word).

Something is wrong with the ship's computer. Before I can figure out whether it has to do with HTTP Strict Transport Security or the Accelerated Graphics Port (it has to be one or the other), we sink, and I drown.