☆ Yσɠƚԋσʂ ☆ to chapotraphouse@hexbear.netEnglish · 5 months agoAldous Huxley explains how Liberal dictatorships workimagemessage-square13fedilinkarrow-up1105arrow-down13file-textcross-posted to: socialism
arrow-up1102arrow-down1imageAldous Huxley explains how Liberal dictatorships work☆ Yσɠƚԋσʂ ☆ to chapotraphouse@hexbear.netEnglish · 5 months agomessage-square13fedilinkfile-textcross-posted to: socialism
minus-squareBodyBySisyphus [he/him]@hexbear.netlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up35·5 months agoTfw in Brave New World they got unlimited drugs and consequence-free sex while we’re stuck with jingoism and Puritanism.
minus-square☆ Yσɠƚԋσʂ ☆OPlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up32arrow-down1·5 months agotfw when what people imagined to be a dystopia in 1930s starts to look pretty good compared to what we actually got
minus-squareDingus_Khan [he/him, they/them]@hexbear.netlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up16·5 months agoThis but for all the GenX ennui media from the 90s. The job from office space looks like a goddamn dream these days
minus-square☆ Yσɠƚԋσʂ ☆OPlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up11arrow-down1·5 months agoSame with stuff like Simpsons, where the idea of a single income family owning a house and having kids is unthinkable today.
minus-squareBodyBySisyphus [he/him]@hexbear.netlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up4·5 months agoIt really does throw a monkey wrench in the Grand Narrative of Historical Progress.
Tfw in Brave New World they got unlimited drugs and consequence-free sex while we’re stuck with jingoism and Puritanism.
tfw when what people imagined to be a dystopia in 1930s starts to look pretty good compared to what we actually got
This but for all the GenX ennui media from the 90s. The job from office space looks like a goddamn dream these days
Same with stuff like Simpsons, where the idea of a single income family owning a house and having kids is unthinkable today.
It really does throw a monkey wrench in the Grand Narrative of Historical Progress.