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I recently read Empire by Orson Scott Card. Since I read that novel, I have started looking at current events as though they were plot points in a novel. That's not to say I am ignoring them or writing them off as trivial, as unreal. More to the point, I am looking at them as though I were writing a novel along the lines of Empire and trying to figure out how each incident falls into the puzzle, into the story. What does it MEAN? Why did it happen? What purpose would this serve in progressing the plot?

It is a fine line between this exercise and indulging in conspiracy theories, but it certainly is interesting to imagine how these incidents could be tied together. It is also forcing me to look at these developments critically, rather than simply observing history as it passes by.