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Penny Arcade - Comic - Holodick
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Penny Arcade - Comic - Holodick
Videogaming-related online strip by Mike Krahulik and Jerry Holkins. Includes news and commentary.
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Couple that with most professions being populated with amateurs, people on a lark who thought, that looks fun, I'll do that! And who, on discovering that doing the job right takes a lot of hard work, either phone it in or move on to the next gig without putting in the effort to get good at doing anything.
Utopia only exists in the middle somewhere between being Morlocks or Eloi. And I suspect that, like the Jetsons, we will be totally incapable of realizing that we're living in it. That was the original idea behind the show. That no matter how amazing a time we live in, we will always find something to complain about.
I think it'll be more like Star Wars, i.e. authoritarian fascists dominate us utterly, while we barely scrape by picking over the ruined remnants of a lost better age for salvage.
Only without magical space monks to save us.
techlords down
penny arcade
inverts a frown
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humanity bends more & more toward justice
maybe two steps forward & one step back
but ever forward
We don't need space monks. We need more Nemiks.
It really depends on who "we" is, because not all of us are living the same "amazing" time. And at any time you can shift out of the group that could arguably be doing so, due to factors outside of your control.
That inherently speaks to how dystopian the time we're living in truly is.
The same applies for Dystopias.
No matter how miserable it is, the people will just shrug and say "it is what it is"
Oh, for sure. Some of the same virtues that we often admire as resilience in the face of adversity can be turned against us.