from the popular hit series, Please For The Love of All That is Holy Don’t Build the Torment Nexus
as a reminder. Zaphod Beeblebrox is meant to be understood to be a villain in Hitchiker’s Guide. he’s a dumb, drugged out, psuedointellectual who’s allowed far too much leeway because he’s both rich and famous
Oddly enough, for all the lolz, some deep wisdom from those books stuck with me for life. The lines about how the kind of people who want to and can get themselves elected to such-and-such office, how that capability and desire also makes them de facto the precise kind of person you never want running things. That idea remains honestly one of the most profound things I’ve ever read, you see it reflected in ~every politician who walks the earth.
In many ways it feels like every other problem we have as humans is downstream from that contradiction (but of course, I’m oversimplifying / overgeneralizing hugely).
Silly books for sure, super silly, but not only silly, def agree.
Hey to be fair they’ve been hard at work facilitating cyber-psychosis as well, just without the cool implants (talking about ai if anyone was wondering)
Which is exactly why I mentioned having only the shitty corpo netanats and none of the rest of the stuff we might call cool but is just an extension of living in a technodystopic world of wild disparity.
Just because it’s so true people are sick of it doesn’t change the fact that it is, indeed, 1984.
Also Brave New World, weirdly enough.
Good news - we didn’t have to pick a dystopia. We’re getting them ALL. At the same time.
Heavy influence from Fahrenheit 451 as well
And The Sheep Look Up.
Idiocracy.
Yeah, I thought Fahrenheit 451 was missing from the dystopian Trinity too.
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Damn, guess I no other option but to chop my balls off.
It’s literally a cyberpunk dystopia only less cool.
The people with the resources to change things took those stories as guidebooks… “Ooh sick robots!”
and we don’t even have those sick robots
They really failed on every front
They only succeeded in building the torment nexus
from the popular hit series, Please For The Love of All That is Holy Don’t Build the Torment Nexus
as a reminder. Zaphod Beeblebrox is meant to be understood to be a villain in Hitchiker’s Guide. he’s a dumb, drugged out, psuedointellectual who’s allowed far too much leeway because he’s both rich and famous
Oddly enough, for all the lolz, some deep wisdom from those books stuck with me for life. The lines about how the kind of people who want to and can get themselves elected to such-and-such office, how that capability and desire also makes them de facto the precise kind of person you never want running things. That idea remains honestly one of the most profound things I’ve ever read, you see it reflected in ~every politician who walks the earth.
In many ways it feels like every other problem we have as humans is downstream from that contradiction (but of course, I’m oversimplifying / overgeneralizing hugely).
Silly books for sure, super silly, but not only silly, def agree.
that’s on purpose! Douglass Adams was primarily motivated to write them by how offensive he found Apartheid South Africa to his existence as a human
that’s on purpose! Douglass Adams was primarily motivated to write them by how offensive he found Apartheid South Africa to his existence as a human
Hey to be fair they’ve been hard at work facilitating cyber-psychosis as well, just without the cool implants (talking about ai if anyone was wondering)
And none of the cyberpunk. Just the shitty corpos controlling everything.
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That’s cyberpunk as a niche hobby, not a cultural norm. We’re nowhere near Night City, Blade Runner or even Ready Player One.
Yeah, the shit is pretty cool, but it isn’t cyberpunk as an inescapable culture.
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Which is exactly why I mentioned having only the shitty corpo netanats and none of the rest of the stuff we might call cool but is just an extension of living in a technodystopic world of wild disparity.
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And that one where a bunch of kids get stranded on an island and have to survive.
They become the rulers of the USA apparently.
Lord of the Flies?
Yes, thank you!
If it’s Brave New World please send me to Iceland.
i may have read and forgotten both when i was in my teens and mostly incapable of thought or political analysis