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    1. His Bark Materials  🌌‏ @OneiricCanid 29 Oct 2020
      Replying to @perdricof @arthur_affect

      Oh that’s 100% what Children of Men depicts. And surviving the apocalypse is its own kind of torture. You’re assuming Brits see survival under those conditions as a good thing, whereas culturally I’ve found we view that as the worst-case scenario…

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    2. Dr. Samantha Hancox-Li‏ @perdricof 29 Oct 2020
      Replying to @OneiricCanid @arthur_affect

      the england of children of men is packed with refugees fleeing the even-more-fucked states of europe, so

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    3. His Bark Materials  🌌‏ @OneiricCanid 29 Oct 2020
      Replying to @perdricof @arthur_affect

      *gestures to the “worst case scenario” label there* Island nation, xenophobia, etc. That’s a comment on current fears. The world it depicts is so terrible people are issued suicide kits by the government. I’d argue dying of the plague in that universe was a kindness.

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    4. Dr. Samantha Hancox-Li‏ @perdricof 29 Oct 2020
      Replying to @OneiricCanid @arthur_affect

      look i'm not arguing that CHILDREN OF MEN depicts a really deeply fucked britain where things are very bad i am saying that the text just says that britain is nevertheless the last bastion of order in an even more awful world

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    5. His Bark Materials  🌌‏ @OneiricCanid 29 Oct 2020
      Replying to @perdricof @arthur_affect

      Oh you’re not wrong! I just think you’re mistaking that for a good thing when “I’d rather live directly underneath the mushroom cloud” is a sentiment that I’ve heard expressed w/ a degree of regularity and seems to be shared by many. Also, well, *gestures at Threads*

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    6. Arthur Chu‏Verified account @arthur_affect 29 Oct 2020
      Replying to @OneiricCanid @perdricof

      You're missing what she's saying, which is that a REALLY cruel fate for the UK would for the rest of the world to be a happy, functioning utopia and the UK and the UK alone to be a failed state kept in quarantine behind a wall

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    7. Arthur Chu‏Verified account @arthur_affect 29 Oct 2020
      Replying to @arthur_affect @OneiricCanid @perdricof

      This is something Kim Stanley Robinson did with his future version of the USA in The Wild Shore, and that's actually fairly common with American cyberpunk dystopias (which have tended to play on American fears of obsolescence next to Japan, or China)

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    8. Arthur Chu‏Verified account @arthur_affect 29 Oct 2020
      Replying to @arthur_affect @OneiricCanid @perdricof

      But it's a rare theme for British writers to explore

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    9. Arthur Chu‏Verified account @arthur_affect 29 Oct 2020
      Replying to @arthur_affect @OneiricCanid @perdricof

      I mean that's why I brought up Orwell, who throws this humiliation in your face in the opening of 1984 - the whole island of Great Britain has been renamed "Airstrip One", the empire of Oceania, based in the former USA, sees Britain as nothing but a forward base against Eurasia

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    10. Arthur Chu‏Verified account @arthur_affect 29 Oct 2020
      Replying to @arthur_affect @OneiricCanid @perdricof

      But the weird thing is this is brought up at the very beginning then dropped, it has no effect on anything The Party's ideology is called English Socialism or Ingsoc even though England isn't supposed to be important

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      Arthur Chu‏Verified account @arthur_affect 29 Oct 2020
      Replying to @arthur_affect @OneiricCanid @perdricof

      Big Brother and Emmanuel Goldstein are treated as though they're British and their old stomping grounds were in London even though the Airstrip One thing means they should probably be Americans The whole thing is in this kind of weird limbo, possibly intentionally

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        2. Dr. Samantha Hancox-Li‏ @perdricof 29 Oct 2020
          Replying to @arthur_affect @OneiricCanid

          there's approximately no american cultural influence either, nor presence of vast numbers of american troops on british bases, no foreign commanders in charge of ministries none of the spillover you'd expect from being a colony, in other words

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        3. Arthur Chu‏Verified account @arthur_affect 29 Oct 2020
          Replying to @perdricof @OneiricCanid

          The only actual proof the rest of the world even exists, IIRC, is a bit about how the military parade has on display a bunch of POWs from Eastasia (with which Oceania is at war and always has been at war) "Little yellow men" whose odd appearance Winston takes note of

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