The future never arrives with the aesthetics of anybody who’s been actually preparing for it even if it’s a functional equivalent
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Another interesting thing: food. We’re supposed to all be eating grey unidentifiable, unappetizing soylent mush with luxury fine food being rare. But I’m eating random fancy shit while some staples are getting harder to find. And of course as much remarked, everybody is baking.
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There’s some moral projection too. Apocalypse stories are often written with a “we must pay for our sins” moral angle. So there must be privation and no luxuries. But half of us middle-classes are having a fine vacation developing long-dormant side projects. Unfair but true.
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Kinda tired though, I’ve written so many damn things that are loosely like this, it’s not as much fun for me anymore. Maybe I’ll turn it into a bounty challenge. $100 for most viral execution on this color-by-numbers template.
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Caveat: this is very far from over and we’re just in phase 1 of n. Who knows, maybe one of the aesthetic predictions true in phase 3 or 7.
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Haircuts: movie apocalypses have fancy tribal hair. We are dealing with overgrown hair or bad home haircuts because salons and barbershops are closed.