The life of H.G. Wells deconstructs the transition from a lower-middle-class draper's apprentice to a high-stakes study of Science Fiction and the architecture of the Atomic Bomb. This episode of pplpod explores the mechanics of the World Brain, analyzing the global pursuit of Human Rights and the unsettling legacy of Social Darwinism. We begin our investigation by stripping away the "entertainer" facade to reveal a 19th-century student who utilized Darwinian biology under Thomas Huxley to view society as a biological organism in need of optimization. This deep dive focuses on "Wells's Law," deconstructing how the "plausible impossible" allowed readers to bypass skepticism and accept dystopian realities like the destruction of Lo ...