A Boring Dystopia

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They'd sell the sky if it was possible (discuss.tchncs.de)

submitted 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago) by chemicalwonka@discuss.tchncs.de to c/aboringdystopia@lemmy.world

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[–] sp3tr4l@lemmy.zip 2 points 7 hours ago* (last edited 7 hours ago) (1 children)

Your expectations were too optimistic.

A person is smart. People are dumb, panicky, dangerous animals, and you know it.

Agent Kay, MiB

Think of how stupid the average person is, and realize half of them are stupider than that.

George Carlin

(By the way, the average American has the literacy level of a 5th-6th grader now, so that's about 160 millionish people basically dumber than 6th graders, 11 year olds)

[–] latenightnoir@lemmy.world 1 points 7 hours ago (1 children)

I think you're right. I do have a problem with misplaced hope, I'm noticing...

[–] sp3tr4l@lemmy.zip 1 points 5 hours ago

I used to as well.

I was going to post you a link of Land of Confusion cover, but I broke down into ugly crying for 10 minutes... something in it triggered me, remembering all the high hopes I used to have for humanity...