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
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)
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.
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?
It’s also beginning to feel like Children of Men with all the microplastics in everydude’s balls.
Heavy influence from Fahrenheit 451 as well
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
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)
i may have read and forgotten both when i was in my teens and mostly incapable of thought or political analysis