As your new overlords we will be implementing horrific working conditions on you! You will work 6 hours a day 3 days a week! We will restrict your freedom of movement by only putting 2 free bus rides on your metro cards a day! All public transit rides after that you will have to pay for by returning an aluminum can for recycling!
covers mic
“Why are they cheering?”
“To Serve Man… it’s a cookbook!”
me, having lived for the last 40 years, looking directly into the alien’s eyes
“Start fattening me up before I change my mind.”
butt stuff without the dating hussle
I for one welcome my new butt overlord
Somebody hasn’t seen scifi before…
It reminds me of the same whatabout-isms that downplayed TikTok as a threat becauae US companies are a threat. I chalk it up to a lack of imagination ironically
It’s all been repeated allegories for the horrors of colonialism. Over and over and over again. Yet some particularly powerful dipshits read something like Hitchiker’s Guide to the Galaxy, let’s say, and miss that it’s an allegory for South African Apartheid and how it’s bad. They get to focused on the idea of a space ship with an improbability engine named the Heart of Gold.
Why I bring up this particular example I’ll leave to the reader to decide
I just thought it was a funny book.
It can be two things. But part of why the humor lands is that we all kind of get the idea of a foreign power showing up somewhere and destroying an entire culture for a golf course or highway or whatever. It’s a joke that has eternal value thanks to its real critique of something horrible.
Huh, I always thought it was a commentary on general bureaucracy, that systems are too complex that it doesn’t allow for a person to have a voice for their own protection, but South African Apartheid probably makes more sense.
there’s a good chance that anything they might have planned for humanity…is a step up from what we’re doing to ourselves.
