Is madness humanity’s superpower? In Rocketeer #64 I’m reading Fredric Brown’s “Letter to a Phoenix”—180,000 years of wars, rebirth, and insanity topping alien sanity. Brown’s story is a cosmic jitterbug! Buckle up, galaxy cats. I’ve got a new mic and wanted to give it a run. Hear the entire story in this episode.
The Immortality of Madness
How Insanity, Not Sanity, Preserves the Human Race
Apr 30, 2025
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