Will have to wait to watch it until I get home from work. Despite snow flurries and a "feels like" of 8 (F) / -13 (Celsius), there are still people marching in to stare at youtube, etc this un-fine Saturday. To think I could be at home completely entombed within a quilt!
I have often thought, however, that we're already living in a kind of dystopia -- between everyone constantly starting at phones, human customers forced to act like robots by following scripts and following corporate policies with no creativity whatsoever, robots pretending to be perky humans who would probably have very punchable faces -- and that's not getting started with politics and corpocracy.
Oh, we're *definitely* dystopia adjacent - and not just recently! The more you understand exactly HOW the 'System' works the more you appreciate the idea of dystopia. Cyberpunk *really* leans into that instinctive resistance to corporate bullshit & exploitation. ONE reason why I love it so much! I was never a happy little drone & the people around me definitely knew that! Probably one reason why my boss frowned so much (sorry, Liz!) and I was only promoted that ONE time... [lol]
Working on a Saturday? By choice or is it part of your normal hours? On the few occasions that I worked weekends we always got 'double time' which was nice. I would rather be at home though - but sometimes you gotta do what you gotta do....
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Will have to wait to watch it until I get home from work. Despite snow flurries and a "feels like" of 8 (F) / -13 (Celsius), there are still people marching in to stare at youtube, etc this un-fine Saturday. To think I could be at home completely entombed within a quilt!
I have often thought, however, that we're already living in a kind of dystopia -- between everyone constantly starting at phones, human customers forced to act like robots by following scripts and following corporate policies with no creativity whatsoever, robots pretending to be perky humans who would probably have very punchable faces -- and that's not getting started with politics and corpocracy.
Oh, we're *definitely* dystopia adjacent - and not just recently! The more you understand exactly HOW the 'System' works the more you appreciate the idea of dystopia. Cyberpunk *really* leans into that instinctive resistance to corporate bullshit & exploitation. ONE reason why I love it so much! I was never a happy little drone & the people around me definitely knew that! Probably one reason why my boss frowned so much (sorry, Liz!) and I was only promoted that ONE time... [lol]
Working on a Saturday? By choice or is it part of your normal hours? On the few occasions that I worked weekends we always got 'double time' which was nice. I would rather be at home though - but sometimes you gotta do what you gotta do....
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