Kennith Hite is a genius

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I know, old news. But let me highlight this line from his Suppressed Transmission exploring the mythical nature of Johnny Appleseed:

"The true democratic fruit," as Henry Ward Beecher called the apple, is, if you look at it correctly, an organic, self-evolving von Neumann machine that makes the liquid-metal Terminator look like a Ken doll.

That's just a thing of beauty.