Taylor Swift, Walmart Poker Chairs & The Shadow Renaissance

Science Fiction Author D. Colin Palmer takes you on a dry but razor-sharp walk through Walmart in search of new poker chairs—only to bump into a former classmate whose health problems are explained not by mystery but by laziness and overeating. From there, the commentary turns toward the current social climate: is our world living under the shadow of a parallel renaissance happening in another reality?

Through the lenses of Machiavelli, quantum mechanics, theoretical physics—and why Taylor Swift should stay out of politics—Palmer connects poker theory, appetite, and social decay into a startling conclusion: humanity’s crisis is not intelligence or technology, but coordination.

Opinion only. Intellectual and artistic exploration, not advice.