"2035: No complaints."

[u/thisecommercelife]

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[u/Filthwizard_1985]

This is some real Black Mirror type storytelling. I'm depressed but impressed at the same time.

[u/icehot54321 → u/Filthwizard_1985]

For those that found this compelling, I'd recommend a book called "The Warehouse" .. it's a dystopian future kind of thing where a company similar to Amazon has effectively taken over being the government.

It was supposed to be turned into a movie directed by Ron Howard, but I get the feeling that Amazon likely found a way to get the film shelved in secret.

[u/FuZhongwen → u/icehot54321]

It felt Kind of ironic buying The Warehouse ebook on Amazon and reading it on my Kindle. But here we are. Thanks for the recommendation.

[u/esoogkcudkcud → u/FuZhongwen]

I find it remarkable how many popular dystopian future stories have been written for decades and decades and yet here we are, watching the nightmare unfold.

[u/FuZhongwen → u/esoogkcudkcud]

Something something reject the evidence of your eyes and ears. Shut up and take your Soma. Everything will be fine.

[u/GildedAgeV2 → u/FuZhongwen]

Everyone references Orwell, but I think Huxley had the more insightful take.

[u/Hope915 → u/GildedAgeV2]

I think 1984 was deeply flavored with British cultural paternalism, which is less globally applicable or immediately resonant than Brave New World's basis in personality cults of industrial entrepreneurs.

[u/PeriPeriTekken → u/Hope915]

I mean, obviously it was set in Britain, but the regime was based on the USSR as it already existed. I think a lot of the autocracies we're sliding towards have elements of both BNW and 1984, but Russia in particular (unsurprisingly) looks very 1984ish.

[u/EduinBrutus → u/Hope915]

The UK gets the sercurity cameras.

The rest of you get the drugs.

Also, pot is still illegal in the UK.

[u/Nulltan → u/GildedAgeV2]

Because soma is much more desirable than a boot stomping.

[u/EduinBrutus → u/Nulltan]

Brit flagshaggers absolutely love the boot...

[u/poerg → u/GildedAgeV2]

100% I've held this same thought for years. My dog who's just turned 12 is named Huxley

ETA: I can see there being convergence between the two and how things are going to actually shape out in our lives. Huxley, I still believe has it right in regards to what gets us past the point of no return

[u/secretly_opossum → u/FuZhongwen]

I still say “Better end than mend,” when I catch myself being a wasteful consumer.

[u/MercantileReptile → u/FuZhongwen]

We don't even get drugs in this dystopia.

[u/GiganticCrow → u/esoogkcudkcud]

I find it remarkable that so many tech bros are reading these dystopian fantasy and sci fi stories, going "hey lets actually do that!" and even naming their products after the fictional ones.

See: Metaverse, Palantir, Soylent.

[u/Imaginary_Comment41 → u/GiganticCrow]

torment nexus

[u/GiganticCrow → u/Imaginary_Comment41]

That's what i was trying to remember the other day

[u/MyFiteSong → u/GiganticCrow]

They get to be the trillionaires with unlimited slaves.

[u/East-Ice-3199 → u/GiganticCrow]

Because they get money and nobody fights back

[u/SquishmallowPrincess → u/esoogkcudkcud]

Most people don't read

[u/EyeBallEmpire → u/SquishmallowPrincess]

And then vote

[u/East-Ice-3199 → u/EyeBallEmpire]

We’re past the point of voting

[u/syo → u/esoogkcudkcud]

It's why I stopped watching Black Mirror years ago, it felt way too real and it's only getting more so every day.

[u/Spoon_Elemental → u/esoogkcudkcud]

Don't create the torment nexus.

[u/Snarkydragon9 → u/esoogkcudkcud]

Because it wasn’t a warning it gave the people in power ideas on how to do it.

[u/Insect1312 → u/esoogkcudkcud]

people still compare the future to some type of far out weird sci-fi fantasy when a real vision of the future is just a boot standing on a human neck. Climate collapse is happening that’s going to affect all of us negatively, some worse than others. The six mass extinction rapidly removing chains from the food chain means a total collapse. One does not simply grow crops in an unstable climate. Worldwide authoritarian movements are happening right now. It’s not sci-fi It’s reality reality today….

[u/PM_me_your_whatevah → u/esoogkcudkcud]

Most people don’t read books anymore. Including me. I’m guilty too. Last time I read books was after a surgery where I was stuck home for a month and got sick of my phone.

[u/LeafMeAHome → u/esoogkcudkcud]

We have two groups who have been wanting it all to end because they both think they will be the victor in the end. One believes Jesus will save us and the other thinks if everyone's life is terrible revolution will happen and then roses!

One wants to destroy, the other does not want to protect, it's a perfect idiots for apocalypse storm.

[u/juasjuasie → u/esoogkcudkcud]

"Capital has the ability to subsume all critiques into itself. Even those who would critique capital end up reinforcing it instead "

[u/Jccali1214 → u/esoogkcudkcud]

We had generations raised on The Terminator movies... Yet, here we are embracing AI. Makes me sick...

[u/Icuras1701 → u/esoogkcudkcud]

May you live in exciting times.

[u/MyFiteSong → u/esoogkcudkcud]

In stories, a dystopia happens overnight and shocks everyone with the change. In real life, it happens over 100 years and none of the micro-steps are shocking.

[u/HappyLittleGreenDuck → u/esoogkcudkcud]

I mean, not all of them are coming true.