DARK IN HERE, ISN'T IT?

its cause you always slouching toward that damn bethlehem

you grow up with only a surface understanding of computer history and as you learn more it seems advancements recede earlier and earlier in time. they made the first 3d game in 1991. they made the first 3d game in 1985. they made the first 3d game in 1967. they found a Banjo Kazooie prototype inscribed on oxidized bronze gears retrieved from a mycenaean shipwreck

*opens a Rothko painting like a door and leaves through it*

im not gonna argue with a tall woman, whatever you say (remembers that reducing women to the features i find attractive is misogynist and unbecoming) Autonomous Person Worthy Of Respect

so what if I want to have total control over every single thing at all times. just let me lol

dude, this is really scary, and liminal as well. It's like the bathrooms

i get why people don't believe in marriage as a social construct but legally it is the best and easiest way to say "this is who i trust to take care of me when i can't take care of myself" and i'm so glad gay people fought for that right bc when shit gets scary at least i know im in good hands

it’s 2026 i think it’s high time we left mind-body dualism behind us as a species. let’s go into 2027 with the full understanding that we are our bodies and that our consciousness cannot be separated from them thank you

There's a recurring online tendency to aestheticize consensus itself. The imagined future village is full of emotionally compatible people who enjoy communal gardening, conflict resolution circles, acoustic folk music, mutual aid potlucks, and repairing bicycles together at sunset. Which is nice for the people who genuinely enjoy that lifestyle. But plenty of humans are solitary, prickly, obsessive, urban, nocturnal, sensory-seeking, technologically attached, contrarian, novelty-seeking, private, or just plain difficult. Those people do not evaporate after the revolution. They do not get Left Behind while you are Raptured into the Utopia. They become your neighbors.

The part about it being envisioned specifically as a "village" is relevant, I think, in that these kinds of people romanticize small rural villages as this ideal form of close-knit community to which we must retvrn, in contrast to the hard, alienating city life. But I'd argue that sure, dense urban environments can be alienating in certain ways, but they're also in many ways more utopian simply in that they force people to learn to peacefully co-exist as a community with others very different from themselves. The rural village appears to live in idyllic consensus because everyone who did not fit in has either been ostracized away, worn down into conformity, or has voluntarily fled to the nearest big city as soon as they were old enough.