Inevitability is no match for indolence
“I don’t like today’s sci-fi. It’s all too dystopian.” “We’ve always had some dystopia in our sci-fi. It’s wired into us.” “To be hopeless?” “No. To be selfish. I mean,…
Tag: apocalypse
Once you hear it, you can’t unhear it
“I am reading The Girl with All the Gifts, and one line stuck with me. ‘[H]er survival is a side effect of [her] mediocrity.’ [pg. 264] Different context but it…
Under the Throes of Big Umbrella
How odd and yet perfectly logical that a description of a dystopian future defined by cannibalism and disassociation has the same feel as America under Trump: “It’s a shrill silence…
The Key is Not To Care…
“So we own Venezuela now? Can you explain that to me with America First?” “Trump had to take in another country. He’s eating for two.” “Are you still on that…
We have elected officials so we don’t have to think…
“We never talk about climate change anymore.” “We are in the midst of the great reset.” “A reset? You think the climate is resetting itself?” “Oh god no. We are…
Let’s Keep Doing the Same Thing Over and Over and Over and Over Again
“It’s time for us to stop being soft on immigrants.” “That’s an odd thing to say. Trump demonizes them at every turn, and we’ve had months of mass deportations, disappearings,…
Who needs dolls when you can have coal for Christmas?
“All that talk about the BBB bill hurting the poor. It’s all BS.” “Obviously. Of course. But…let’s say, purely hypothetical, some crazy person claims that this bill hurts the poor…
The Bad End of a Bad Deal
“Can you believe all those leftists are saying that Trump is drowning his own supporters?!?” “I feel fine. I’m breathing alright, and we have the cleanest air and the cleanest…
Meet the 2028 GOP Nominee (if we are still doing elections)
“Do you see that some shitty fan heckled a baseball player about his dead mother?” “I did. It was in Chicago. He was heckling Ketel Marte about his mother. Last…
Will the presidential knees buckle from the Great Leap Forward?
“I went to Saturday’s Super Trump Tank Parade, and it was awesome. I had a whole bleacher to myself—It was like getting an empty row during a flight. Too bad…