A hideous fruit, disgracing itself.
Allo-Aro
Orson Scott Card: Two smart teenagers going by the monikers Locke and Demosthenes engage in a socratic dialogue designed to deliberately steer the future of humanity
Reality: A man going by “cat turd 2” is somehow extremely persuasive to the world’s richest man
I read Ender's Game for the first (and only) time in the mid 00s, and even then that bit seemed so laughably optimistic about what influential posting could look like.
also an 11 year old writes a book and it becomes a core part of all major religions (skipping some detail here)
