Reading Wieland and Memoirs of Carwin the Biloquist | Alexandria
Read Wieland and Memoirs of Carwin the Biloquist by Charles Brockden Brown. Blending religious fanaticism with eerie ventriloquism, Brown's gothic masterpiece exposes how easily conviction can slide into delusion. This first American novel dares to ask: What if our deepest beliefs are just elaborate self-deceptions? As AI voices become indistinguishable from human ones, its warnings about blind faith feel unnervingly relevant.