• cassandrafatigue@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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    16 days ago

    Nobody cares about the truth, and by virtue of being true, something is harder to weave into narratives anyone gives a single fuck about.

    Or, sometimes people care about things being true-studies have shown that citing sources can entrench opposition, and in fact does so much more often than it convinces anyone.

            • At this part it sounded like you started conflating “now” with “the next 75 years” and trying to downplay the impact my work should have on that timescale

              Sounds like you’re just a dishonest person attached to a society that props up such people, and being dishonest about that too instead of thinking straightforwardly about it

              Upvoted your comment anyway on the basis of pretending you understood the meaning of your words, in which case your point was the so-called “21st” century isn’t for my enemies, even though in reality you probably used the same sequence of words to imply the opposite - that you’re persisting under the delusion humanity will magically handle the consequences of another 75 years of denialism before anything changes to benefit people like me

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                    13 days ago

                    It’s fine. Nobody reads books. I’m just a total loser. The book in question takes place at the end of the 21st century, and the flashbacks to earth are bleak as fuck. Basically nobody’s relevant unless they’re extremely posthuman in some way or other, with all associated costs. The people who couldn’t stay employed in the few jobs that still matter mostly retreat to a solipsistic version of ‘the matrix’ while their bodies atrophy away to nothing, in part because reality’s so fucking terrible.

                    We don’t have the vivid full sensory computer simulation, or the post-scarcity-but-still-a-nightmare shit hole, but we got all the solipsism.