Perfect meditation was quick and easy: the neural stimulation band could be built with a few hundred dollars' worth of parts, and ran by software you could download from a thousand shifting unbannable places. At first, greedy and contemptuous, governments encouraged this spiritual disruption. It meant less competitors for power and wealth, and if there was one thing all the rich and powerful agreed on was the inconvenience of competition from those who might yet be. But the growing Enlightened masses weren't fertile soil for taxes, nor good customers, nor willing to wage war by robot or gun.
The Still Wheel
The Still Wheel
The Still Wheel
Perfect meditation was quick and easy: the neural stimulation band could be built with a few hundred dollars' worth of parts, and ran by software you could download from a thousand shifting unbannable places. At first, greedy and contemptuous, governments encouraged this spiritual disruption. It meant less competitors for power and wealth, and if there was one thing all the rich and powerful agreed on was the inconvenience of competition from those who might yet be. But the growing Enlightened masses weren't fertile soil for taxes, nor good customers, nor willing to wage war by robot or gun.