The book essentially posits that it is possible to reach the end of progress because humanity has learned everything there is to know in a particular field.
That media machine has helped convince journalists, editors and producers in the traditional media to continue subscribing to the old frame that essentially posits that conservatives are Serious and Sober Realists and progressives are Unserious Dirty Fucking Hippies.
The logic (or, really, illogic) of this fetishization essentially posits that anything that can pass with bipartisan votes in Congress is good, and anything that can only pass with Democratic votes must be bad.*.*
This line, delivered by Matthew 's wizened Rust Cohle in a Louisiana interrogation room, essentially posits that in the context of the greater universe, everything that will ever happen to us has already happened, and we're just perceiving it in a linear fashion.
The story's less contained, and it retreads the same central debate about whether superheroes are a good or bad thing, with a villain who essentially posits (in convincing but cruel fashion) that powers are equivalent to Ayn Randian selfish hierarchy.
Interestingly, it was Drexler was first addressed the potential dark side of nanotechnology, coining the term "grey goo"; this thought experiment posited a molecular "replicator" (essentially a microscopic robot) that would be capable of self-replication, using matter from its environment as raw materials.
In the second book in the series he posited that the universe is essentially a "dark forest," populated by predatory species that will wipe out lesser beings in an instant.
In a sense, therefore, the Cartesian argument for the human-uniqueness of consciousness rests on the premise that material processes are insufficient to account for human capacities for language, rationality, and self-awareness (i.e. the awareness of oneself as, putatively, an essentially thinking thing) — and hence a non-material soul was posited to account for these phenomena.
This film posits an essentially godless universe where certain Muppets turn out to be space aliens and is, in its own way, as anti-Christian as any Harry Potter film.
In practice, one must essentially ascertain that the chemical's effects do not follow any of the mechanisms that are posited as causing linearity to accept it as Model 2. In practice, it is likely that this will almost always lead to the adoption of either Model 1 or 3, both of which assume linearity at the population level.
