It hooks them up to a VR simulation of 1950’s america and they’re the abusive husband to a hot wife and two kids. Racism is alive and well and the USA and white people by extension run the world.
They can never leave, much like the matrix they’re locked into the simulation for life but it’s more humane than wholesale genocide because let’s face it, a lot of people in the USA deserve it.
Nah, they never had any qualms with lack of humanity. Make em communist like Puyi.
Waste of energy, chuck 'em in a mineshaft. If we run out of mineshafts, get 'em to dig more.
This feels more ethically questionable than shooting them tbh
I feel like there’s potential for a good story here…ah, wait, it’s just The Truman Show.
I had a similar idea for dealing with capitalists: make a video game for them that simulates stock trading and all the “work” they do to “run” their companies. Maybe hire a few actors to be their “assistants.” They can also have a siloed version of twitter full of bootlicker bots that enthusiastically agree with all their dumb ideas.
Sometimes I worry that due to a clerical error I have been placed in this simulation as one of the workers
Baiting them into quitting just selects for a bait-averse capitalist. Tom from MySpace decided to enjoy his life and we got Zuck.
The Animatrix taught me that this is the most humane option for irredeemably murderous chuds.
No no, lock them in a reeducation cube and let them out if they are rehabilitated.
Mario Teaches Typing but it’s Mario Teaches How To Be A Human
but instead of Mario it’s Stalin
What if we’re already in that simulation and it’s been 70 years so the chuds are still trapped? What if it really is the Immortal Science so the virtual simulation children turned out to be commies anyway?
I know you’re joking, but still, “simulation theory,” or deism for techbros, is a well-trodden and extremely sus belief system, and the worst part of it is how easily the average techbro can perceive people they don’t like as “NPCs” in that aforementioned “simulation.” Arguably that makes it worse as a belief system than deism.
Yeah memes aside, the “NPC” shit is cover for fascism and justifying the murder of the out-group. Reactionaries are creatively bankrupt, so all they can do is appropriate. In this case, they took stuff from The Matrix (red pill, simulation, etc.) that was an allegory of capitalism and observations of social constructs (gender especially).
It’s ironic how they view others as “NPCs” when they’re so easily programmed by outrage while being incapable of producing meaningful art.
It’s ironic how they view others as “NPCs” when they’re so easily programmed by outrage while being incapable of producing meaningful art.
It fits how much King Bazinga and his chud minions are so fond of treat-printed simulacra versions of both King Bazinga and anything that is of interest to chuds. It is appropriate because their idea of reality is that plastic and artificial to begin with, as is their distorted perceptions about how their would-be philosopher-kings actually look.
Did you mean to say solipsism or am I just missing the Deism connection?
A case can certainly be made for solipsism there too, yes, but I said deism specifically because of the techbro habit of believing that they come up with super original ideas because they can’t be bothered to check if someone already thought of that idea before, such as the idea of some creative force (the “simulation’s” programmer) creating the entire world as we know it (the “simulation”) and then setting it to run itself according to established physical laws (the “simulation’s” programming) and otherwise doesn’t intervene.
On the one hand, the worst thing that can happen to someone is that they get everything they ever wanted
On the other hand, the matrix taught us that even the Paradise simulation couldn’t work because the human mind would rebel.
Instead, allow me to present the Samsara Midnight Realm Cube. They get roughly the median life in america with all the attendant miseries and temporary happiness that implies, BUT it’s just slightly degraded and worse. Like the movie Wristcutters.
The matrix is fiction, it depicted that in the movie, it doesn’t really seek to prove the same irl
Oh shit didn’t realize we had blue pills here, yes yes the matrix was just a movie and dorpheus was just a prank in the office
But they don’t want a paradise, they want hell.
They don’t want happiness, they want others to be miserable. They would forever chase that feeling of power they imagine they would get when they yell at someone, or beat their wives up in exactly the right circumstances. Except this perfect circumstance where they would completely dominate someone in a righteous way never occurs for some reason, it’s always tainted by something… But they never know quite what it is.
Big Cluster B energy. They can’t be at peace or content. The dissatisfaction and emptiness already defines them.
How about they get a place to be angsty and whine about kids these days and how much they hate The Wife but at a slow simmer that keeps their leaded brains engaged? Sort of stuck in an eternal 20th century sitcom.
Wristcutters
Great movie. The soundtrack, the humor, [redacted] as a hippy commune leader haha! Not to mention other surprise actor [redacted]. Thanks for reminding me of a favorite.
just did a deep dive about this movie as i never saw it (it came out during a rough time of my life). seems so unique though and i now want to
Its quite cool! Maybe a bit too sweet but i eat that up sooo
when there is trap…
…you’ll get it.
