

Estimated Time to Death (ETD) feels like a near future stat used to justify killing terminal patients.


Estimated Time to Death (ETD) feels like a near future stat used to justify killing terminal patients.


I am talking about creativity. Soviet era entertainment was based on pre-existing fairy tales and examining the human condition. LOTS of introspection and very little new or innovative that would challenge the status quo.
Over the same time across the world there were new world of art introducing new ideas and characters that no one had seen before. Comicbooks took the world by storm but were ignored in Soviet controlled areas.
Soviet art is exactly what I said authoritarian art is: it lacks innovation and new ideas, instead building on what exists. Instead of creating new heroes that resonate across cultures they have deep introspective works examining the human condition. New forms of art come from egalitarian communities. New ways of expressing existing art forms comes from authoritarian communities.
It doesn’t have to be space scifi. Imagine a vault with pre-event supplies.


Because Britons are cowed by generations of monarchism to listen to authority. The French question that authority in a way that terrifies the British.
I gotta sweep these mines


Building a new idea as opposed to building on an existing idea. The fiction created by pro-authority types leans towards realism.


Although I suppose if the people you are referring to are not interested in political philosophy they aren’t interested in history either.
Exactly. They are uncurious and typically avoid anything that doesn’t support their view.


She’s a helper. What a sweetie!


Authoritarian and hierarchy types don’t have a lot of imagination and are kind of bad at creative exercises for building new ideas. Their creativity is iterative so requires an existing idea. There has only been Soviet style centralized authoritarian communism so that’s all they imagine. Literally unable to imagine any alternative (unless they read political philosophy).


I used to do the voice for IVR phone systems until 2019 when AWS integrated Alexa voice and overnight all of the work stopped. Literally, it was September I saw Alexa and by October all clients moved to the integrated voice menus.


Same person probably invented “Continental breakfast”


He’s the Woody we need right now


And techbros and Wall Street and all those little regional corporations that accrue millions a year in excess profit. It’s all the rich people.
The future was monetized and sold back to us with the idea that anyone who can’t afford to pay can’t afford to live but no one calls it a genocide when it’s against a diverse socioeconomic class.


Childfree communities hate parents. Children are just their poor choices manifest.
You know Boomers didn’t have credit scores until after they had GenX and Millennials? Boomers didn’t grow up with as much red tape as we do


“it’s a little bit high but it’s a small price to pay” is perfect for those Trump stuckers


This is some intergenerational rage bait. Gen Z is just as smart and capable as any other generation. Human generations aren’t a hierarchy of ability and anyone who thinks they are better than a broad category of people is part of the problem. Racism and bigotry both stem from the same idea: some people are better than others and those people need to be discarded from society.
This article is pointless speculation by someone stirring up unwarranted sentiment.
This is Trump saying what’s on his mind and realizing this idea in real time.