this post was submitted on 23 Oct 2025
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A Boring Dystopia
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The world we live in isn't just dystopic, it isn't just stupid, trying to describe all the ways it sucks just makes for a really boring story.
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Students in the year 3025: "Why did they publish these horrible things as if they were accomplishments? Were people back then mentally ill?"
Teacher: "Yes, yes they were."
Archeologists in 3025: Actually these behaviors were ceremonial sacrifices to calm a wrathful god
It's always rituals.
Fertility rituals.
Sorry Gerald, that "Smooth sided fertility statue" isn't a ritual object, it's a dildo.
"We understand the workers of this age toiled endlessly to please a thankless god they called the Shareholder"
Do this shareholder shoot deadly rays from the eyes and has a protective, anti magic barrier in front?
What optimistic thinking to think we've managed to escape out of this by then.
3025, is more likely just the sounds of rocks grinding and whips cracking.