“focus your energy on what you want to see more of” has some distressing implications for the whole genre of dystopian fiction. it suggests that dystopian fiction doesn’t successfully act as a warning, and if anything makes dystopias look cooler, more familiar, more thinkable
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e.g. squid game is ostensibly supposed to be some kind of warning about the dangers of capitalism or inequality or w/e, and also, the basic premise was so cool youtubers immediately began running their own squid games - minus the death obviously
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i think it would for sure be a lot of fun to participate in, on some level. you can tell it's by far the most meaningful thing that's happened to any of the participants. they constantly have to make choices that *actually matter*. bliss
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last year there was a fire like one house away from the house i was staying in and we all had to evacuate and honestly that was kind of a relief too. for a few blessed hours my only job was to not die in a fire. i didn't have to worry about anything else
also we hung out in a park a few blocks away and ordered mcdonald's and chatted a bit which was more social activity than we would've otherwise engaged in 😅
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going to hypothesize that part of the appeal of squid games / fires / etc. is that the goal is not just clear but also *immediate*. no career-scale planning or careful time management required; just respond to each day/hour/minute/second as it comes
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