You are not wrong. There seems to be a similar level of responses too.

That’s a good point, and a nice sentiment, but I feel the need to point out that the owl actually was poisoned by living in the city.

how could someone view this as anything other than dystopian?

Because of the nature of time, the universe is in a constant state of becoming something else. Everything is changing all the time. But, because of the Laws of Conservation of Energy and Mass, there is always part of what was before persisting in what is now. For example, a fire burns logs, releasing the kinetic energy as heat, water vapor, carbon dioxide, etc. The heat dissipates because the atmosphere is very large, but it doesn’t dissappear, it just gets diluted. The water vapor is released into the atmosphere, and those molecules become moisture in a cloud and turn into rain, continuing in the water cycle. In a metaphorical sense, your past selves have “burned” and “released” what you are now. You may consider your past selves dead, but the molecules that made them continue to exist as your current self, even if those molecules are rearranged or are slightly different (we eat food and excrete waste, so our molecules are regularly being exchanged with other molecules in the environment). Those same molecules were once inside the sun. Before that, those molecules existed at the beginning of the universe. So, in a way, yes we are constantly dying and being transformed, but the stuff that we are made of can never die. We are just constantly changing, along with the universe, because we are part of the universe.

Zardoz Clause!

You know it’s bad when Ronald MacDonald is warning you about the dangers inequality

Are you sure this isn’t just a picture of Captain Jonathan Archer?

I think you’re probably right, but a world where robots do art and humans do the tedious manual labor sounds eerily similar to the world we live in. At least, it is not outside the realm of possibility.

Basil Hayden, Woodford Reserve, Knob Creek, Angel’s Envy, Old Grandad, Bulleit are all great choices.

Basil Hayden or Woodford would definitely be my first choice though.

ah, the “Shane Gillis” approach

Not sure if this counts as brutalist, but the post made me think of this example from Portland

I was able to quit cocaine, cigarettes, and alcohol and of those 3, cigarettes was the hardest to quit, with alcohol being a close second. I don’t want to get into a discussion about the roles of behavioral addiction vs. chemical addiction when trying to quit something, but sugar has been just as difficult as alcohol and nicotine, if not more so. It doesn’t help that it is seemingly everywhere and included in all the food. It’s not as easy as “I’ll just stop having ice cream”, of course anyone can do that. If you start paying attention to all the foods sugar is added too and try to avoid those foods, you really have to completely rethink your whole approach to food (where to buy, the role it plays in your life, i.e. why you eat) and spend a lot more energy trying to find “healthy” foods.

That’s a good one; first one I read by him. I think Jitterbug Perfume is my favorite. Totally changed the way I think about the sense of smell haha

Are you one of those people who needs an authority figure to tell you what you are experiencing?

Life on the outside ain’t what it used to be…

But how can he reach maximum productivity if he’s sitting down ?!

Examples?

This sounds like a description of empathy, which, as far as I know, cannot be taught, unfortunately.

I think the fact that a lot of conservative men feel the need to be a part of or have an opinion on everything is not unrelated.

Speak for yourself! I’m just replying to random comments and upvoting whatever I want! I didn’t even read your comment!