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Alisha Grauso@alishagrauso.bsky.social |
We make jokes about how dystopia is a lot more boring in reality than all the books we had to read in high school made it out to be. I think what we're forgetting is that the part we're in now - where the characters might have stopped it & didn't - is the backstory of these books, not the story.
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Conan D. Yossarian
@conantheyossarian.bsky.social
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The bystander effect meets stockholm syndrome.
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NutMeg
@casuallychaotic.bsky.social
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Just waiting for my call to adventure, where a clear an obvious plan is presented that I can royally screw up in new and exciting ways never before envisioned in the history of the world.
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HeckinHound🔞
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It really is scary/concerning how many people seem complacent watching injustices being committed to their neighbors just so long as said injustices don’t inconvenience them personally.
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WolfLawyer
@wolflawyer.bsky.social
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So it’s gonna get interesting soon?
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0world
@paul98.bsky.social
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Many of us will be too busy dying to be entertained by the exciting bits of the actual dystopia.
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Chris Abraham
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Naw, totalitarianism, authoritarianism, despotism, etc, are easy peasy for everyone but uppity people who try to fight the power. J6 rioters, for example, or women who want to drive cars in Saudi or be Queer in Palestine or who generally refuses to comply or capitulate (ie protestors and activists).
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Russ Bengtson
@russbengtson.bsky.social
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right, the actual hunger games are still on the horizon—but closer!
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Peter
@cgblue.bsky.social
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Gee. Thanks for that.
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Bzus
@bzus.bsky.social
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That's why I'm so excited
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Sean Kozma
@seankozma.bsky.social
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Yeah. If project 2025 comes to pass, it’s gonna get the bad kind of exciting real fast.
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Bender Rodríguez
@plungerman.bsky.social
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every time i see video of extreme weather events, i pretend it is b-roll for the future dystopia that will inevitably play out.
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maniagnosis
@maniagnosis.bsky.social
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The story is about the one person who beat the system*, not the thousands who got crushed by it. * 1984 excepted.
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@scientificprogress.bsky.social
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Right on spot! We live the worst dystopia ever! scientificprogress.substack.com/p/the-plan-r...
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ангелõфрения
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If you want an entertaining dystopia watch russian tv, these levels of insanity are rare
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The Air Whisperer
@pneumofoils.bsky.social
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The optimist's take would be that we're ALSO in the backstory of Scientific and Social advance; outcomes depend on WHICH path is chosen. Imagine knowing what Kepler knew (and where it has taken us, Socially & Scientifically) - but knowing it in the year 1500. Aero faces that choice right now...
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Fabian Elfeld
@nocheinautor.bsky.social
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I'm unsure if I'm supposed to envy everyone who thinks so because apparently they enjoyed the books they had to read in school A LOT more than I did.
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Zuthal
@zuthal.bsky.social
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We are in the first act of the disaster movie
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Father Draven 🚛:$127/400 🏳⚧♿👩👧👦
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I don't know about the books I was forced to read, but all of the cyberpunk novels I was reading for leisure sure feel pretty on point! 👀 ... and oh my god what I would give to be bored with the world right now!
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@threehundredand33.bsky.social
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In 1984, it is actually commented on that the downtrodden citizens living in the dystopia actually suffer from boredom a lot, isn’t it?
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Nothings Monstered
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My favorite apocalypse story may be Random Acts of Senseless Violence, which is narrated by a a young girl for whom everything that happens is just how the world is. We see change happening, but for most of it she doesn't have a sense that it could happen any other way.
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