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.