• ExLisper@lemmy.curiana.net
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    When I was reading The Handmaid’s Tale couple of years ago it felt like borderline fantasy, worst possible scenario kind of thing. Now it feels like it’s maybe 5 years away.

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      Our whole continent collectively stopped analyzing fiction as warnings or analogies for what’s real.

      Or more accurately, the line between absurd fantasy and reality was slowly eroded as politicians and officials continued to push the line into the realm of the unbelievable, that people stopped caring about the line.

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        Or more accurately, they dumbed down the educational system so that nobody reads books any more, just whatever propaganda they feed us on our phones.

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          just whatever propaganda they feed us on our phones.

          Not wrong at all, but I encourage everyone to stop using vague language. “They” could mean a thousand different things to a thousand different people.

          Let’s call it what it is. Corporations and oligarchs. Corporations use algorithms to feed you addictive slop to keep you distracted, dumb and ill-informed so they can take over our entire ruling system and deregulate or create whatever laws they want to gain more wealth. We still have a very slim chance of shifting the narrative from a race or ethnicity war to a class war where it belongs but we have to start rallying the victims of this propaganda and we don’t get there with progressive terminology. Focus on the fact that we’re not getting anything in return for our tax money, that we’re all working harder than ever and not getting anything, that people in power are lying for money.

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      Margaret Atwood specifically only included things that have already happened to women at some point in history so nobody could say it was far-fetched or out of the realm of possibility.