"Give me back my friends" is not only a success, but a cry of protest, of anger, to which so many joined, like me. Too bad the insensitive Medium Staff didn't at least respond to the demand.

"I usually like fiction better."

Me too. And as you write in the penultimate paragraph,

"The more I write fiction, the easier I find it to come up with ideas, the easier it seems to have good ones. The more I wrote the easier it got".

But I like James Cussen's good philosophy texts (I read and watch his videos), and Ben Cain's, "enjoying what I enjoy, and don't wasting time out of any sense of loyalty".

And I loved Fred-Rick's posts since "The Big Whisper Theory… For Dummies" which introduced me to another excellent author, John Brodix Merryman Jr, who, both, demystifies and contradicts the botched and improbable Big Bang theories; both make precise epistemological analyzes of these theories, considered solid today, but which will fall into pieces and in a not too distant future.

"But when we get there, the messages from the past may not have gotten there."

I think this is the over sadd part of the saddest story.

Me too, I loved Sawyer Smith's philosophical solution of Fermi's paradox; definitely better than the useless speculations on the numbers of the long equation.

Once again, congratulations and thanks for your text.

And, of course, thank you very much for quoting me. Deserved or not, it's a lovely massage for my ego, an honor for me.