• partial_accumen
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    2011 months ago

    There are lots of dystopian futures where the healthy and technologically advanced separated themselves from the unwashed, uneducated, and violent masses. Elysium is a popular film that uses this trope. We always assumed that the healthy and technologically advanced people created their utopia and pushed out the masses. In these fictional stories, I never considered the possibility that the masses would push out the healthy and technologically advanced people to their utopia and the masses were left to wallow in their own filth by their own choice.

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        11 months ago

        It’s a closer to one than Louisiana, though.

      • partial_accumen
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        511 months ago

        We’re not in the dystopian future yet I was describing. We’re at possibly the middle point between what was, and what will be. The “what will be” would be when that utopia exists.

          • As someone who has lived all over the country, the drug problem in California is not worse than anywhere else. The worst I have seen was in the south and the Midwest. It’s straight meth country all over the US.