One thing's looking likely: incidence of PTSD among the Pashto stoner militias significantly lower than among the occupying forces.

I tried to listen to this, but I'm not used to hearing books read to me, so I read the text myself. Consider my mind comprehensively blown. I never read any Chiang before, and I will remedy that soonest. There's just so much he's doing right, it almost reaches the level of Kim Stanley Robinson in its sheer humanism and respect for the life of the soul...

Thanks Cory!

@kingmu
The subject matter of the clip may not be wonderful, but internet memes (as a category), and the tangled web from which they spring forth, are.