• xxce2AAb@feddit.dk
    link
    fedilink
    English
    arrow-up
    52
    arrow-down
    2
    ·
    edit-2
    6 days ago

    You know what really grinds my gears? This shitty dystopia completely eschews any potentially cool aspect of invasive exploitative authoritarianism. The (not so) secret police is patching together their own “uniforms” by browsing the bargain bins at the local tacti-cool mall-ninja outfitters. Where’s the black leather trench coats, stylish sunglasses worn after dark and slicked back hair? If they’re going to ask me for ‘ze papers’ all the time, the least they can do is look cool doing it, godamnit. At least get Hugo Boss to design your attire; that’s just about the only thing that worked out well for the last bunch of pricks.

    I mean, where’s the towering brutalist architecture? Where’s my mandatory daily dose of SOMA? Or my idiotically wirelessly hackable cyberware? Hell, they can’t even do bread and circuses right anymore. The bread is CO2-pumped flour glue and the circuses is an endless stream of more Marvel projects and Disney violations of Star Wars.

    And don’t get me started on the quality of our dictators these days. They sure don’t make them like they used to.

      • xxce2AAb@feddit.dk
        link
        fedilink
        English
        arrow-up
        9
        ·
        6 days ago

        I think that’s illegal now too. Can’t have anything interfering with the glorious vision of a relentlessly productive citizenry that ideally slave away for the benefits of their owners until they die in the office chair at age 74 - right before qualifying for pension.

        Well, except for the health “care” system. That’s an exception, but only because the only thing better than ruthless exploitation is diversified ruthless exploitation. Gotta keep the peons on their toes, lest they get uppity.

        • SugarCatDestroyer@lemmy.world
          link
          fedilink
          English
          arrow-up
          3
          ·
          edit-2
          6 days ago

          I think one rich man in the past said - I don’t need a nation of thinkers, I need a nation of slaves. Unless I’m mistaken of course. It’s like saying predators have learned not to chase their prey but to raise it, giving it the illusion of freedom, although in fact they are leading it to slaughter like cattle. I like this idea with cattle I couldn’t resist lol. :3

      • xxce2AAb@feddit.dk
        link
        fedilink
        English
        arrow-up
        3
        ·
        edit-2
        6 days ago

        “ICE reached out to both Mr. Bale and Mr. Bean in an attempt to address the current gun-fu deficit of the agency, but regrettably neither had any interest in the job.”