classic Singaporean energy to watch Minority Report and think that that’s a good thing that you should actually suggest that your government ought implement, nvm that the movie is literally about how such technology would be abused
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kinda wondering if people just don’t interpret dystopian fiction as a warning anymore, especially in TV or movie form. it’s the same issue as with war movies that try to show how war is hell: they make it look too good
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yup
Liars poker was a warning about finance and the author kept getting stopped in the streets by finance bros saying he inspired them to get into finance
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Neil Strauss’s The Game also opens with (I paraphrase) “look at Mystery, what a broken loser of a man, god help him and any man who seeks fulfilment in mindless sex”
guys go “whoa guidebook to mindless sex!!!” And then a few years later “mindless sex fucked me up, thread 🧵 👇🏾”
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