Just as Darwin showed that life emerges through biological evolution rather than divine fiat, Parry demonstrated that epic poetry emerges through narrative evolution—traditional oral composition across generations—rather than lone effort.
Last week, Anthropic refused to let the Pentagon use its AI without restrictions on autonomous killing and mass surveillance of Americans. Within hours, the Trump administration blacklisted the company as a national security threat, a designation normally reserved for foreign adversaries. On Friday night, OpenAI announced it had struck a deal with the recently renamed Department of War (DoW) to deploy its models on classified networks.
