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Iron Spike@ironspike.bsky.social |
I’m thinking more and more lately about an old radio play I heard on the sci-fi show “X minus 1” about an Earth where immortality was commonplace, and the old ruled as an intractable oligarchy, and the young were eventually forced to just genocide them with a terrorism campaign.
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@bunshonokai.bsky.social
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I recall a varient on that concept where you had a time limit for immortality, if you got it, you had to move planets/join a colonization plan after a certain amount of time and you only got to take a fixed amount with you. (To prevent people being like locusts on the local economy)
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Alan "the Truth shall make ye flee" J
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Both "Dimension X" and "X Minus 1" gave the radio audience their first taste of some now-famous authors.
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Kory Bing🔜SDCC
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WE TALKIN BOUT X MINUS 1 OVER HERE, MY FAVORITE RADIO SHOW?????
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Iron Spike
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And if that isn’t on the nose enough for you, the old we’re also obscene plutocrats, because they never died and passed their wealth on as inheritance to the young, so everyone who hadn’t been born in that first generation of immortals was basically impoverished. Yeah.
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Comix Thomas
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They might use it to keep people with hard to find skill sets from retiring.
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Joltin’ Johnny Lucas
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I love x minus 1.
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Michael Seraphim
@mseraphimsl.bsky.social
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Kurt Vonnegut has a short story called Tomorrow and Tomorrow and Tomorrow with that as a plot device too.
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JThomasAlbert
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I still remember when Senator Cory Booker told Biden to his face it was "time to pass the torch" and Biden just laughed. I almost expected him to go full Palpatine and shout "NO! NO! NO!" in a gravelly voice and rain force lightning on Booker.
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Bisexual Soft Dumbass
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Ah yeah, that was a good episode. Wish I could remember the title
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nora neurosismancer 🏳️⚧️
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clearly no parallels to our current situation huh 😔
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Le Woodman
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I'm currently playing Horizon Forbidden West, and, like, no spoilers or anything, but, hm, yeah.
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Stereo
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Altered Carbon's got some of that going on as well.
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rob jefferson
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I used to listen to X minus 1 as a kid (a local station played classic radio shows, and I’d listen almost every night). I should check it out again.
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