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Re: responding to Naut...
No 'except' about it: I've said before in several of my Loosely Speaking blogs, we are already well on the way to Idiocracy, and proof is that we continue on that path, seeing it, and not doing damn much about it.
posted by
Ciel
on March 28, 2013 at 3:03 PM
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Pat...
I'm with you in preferring the old fashioned versions of Frankenstein and King Kong, and that poor Wolfman. Its hard to call them monsters. We feel sorry for them in their "conditions."
Most of the modern stuff is just trying to out-gore each other. No sense. No feeling..
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posted by
Rumor
on March 27, 2013 at 4:45 PM
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Ha ha ha, I liked your ending. I sort of like dystopian humor when I run across it, but I'm not sure I wouldn't get tired of a whole dystopian book.
“In the year 2025, the best men don't run for president, they run for their lives. . . .” ~Stephen King
posted by
TAPS.
on March 27, 2013 at 1:00 PM
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Pat
I think we're on the way to a dystopia of our own! Ciel's comment is very much to the point, except that we already have a ‘cheery society that is, essentially, killing itself with a blend of sugar and willful ignorance,’ LOL. Witness the sorry state of Education and the shrinking of Manufacturing vs. the immense growth of the Entertainment Industry and the even more amazing growth of Government...
posted by
Nautikos
on March 27, 2013 at 11:29 AM
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One of my all time favourite movies is...............and it is the only one
like it ..."Edward Scissor Hands." I guess because I have always lived on the fringe of society myself, family always scratched their heads because I was different...it made a person sympathetic towards this different guy..... towards all people struggling to live life their way, not necesarrily following on as expected.....but I am like you, I leave all that dark living dead, twilight whatever to the Grandchildren.
posted by
Kabu
on March 27, 2013 at 9:08 AM
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"Dystopia" is the dark side of "Utopia"
and you got me thinking about what it could be other than dark.
Have you ever seen the movie, "Idiocracy?" It is a cheery future society that is, essentially, killing itself with a blend of sugar and willful ignorance. There's another, a film with Sly Stallone that is also cheery by law, in which all restaurants are called Taco Bell. Both stories require someone from the past, wakened from cryogenic sleep, to solve the societies' real problems.
Somehow, no matter which way I turn it, the dark goes with 'dystopian.'
posted by
Ciel
on March 27, 2013 at 8:16 AM
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Oh dear. I think we've come to that point where we're not even sure what Law and Order is anymore, and the bitter laughter is commonplace. I guess I'd better stop reading the news.... again.
posted by
adnohr
on March 27, 2013 at 7:13 AM
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