Sunday Superposition #29

Rejecting lies; muscles are the key to longevity

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There are four lights

Like most kids of my generation, I was forced to read George Orwell’s vision of dystopia in the novel 1984. His then-futuristic world, while terrifying, seemed uniformly cold, grey, and dispassionate. And while there were elements of cruel absurdity in this society—like forcing citizens to say that 2+2=5 and sending dissidents to the “Ministry of Love” to be tortured into submission—there was a Soviet-like austerity to it all.

One thing I didn't expect from actual dystopia is how clownishly absurd it would be about so many things. Take, for example, these representatives of public health.

Health ministers for Belgium, Quebec, the UK, and the United States.

I’m glad Orwell isn’t around to see how embarrassing our dystopia has turned out. This isn’t George Lucas’ stylishly bleak THX 1138 or the sexy techno-dystopia of Logan’s Run, but a satanic clown-show parody of what civilization ought to be.