human beings will put up with an astonishing amount of shit so their children can eat and drink, grow up to outlive them, and know more than they do about the world. our capitalists have lost sight of how powerful of a carrot that is, think they can count on the stick by itself

in the general case, mass literacy is one of the few things industrialization accomplished in most societies that everyone regards as positive. if they make illiterates out of the generations to come, they won't be docile

one of the things this awful alienation does to sustain itself is create boundaries between ourselves and our own past, make us imagine our own forefathers & foremothers as total foreigners whose souls are as alien to us as inhabitants of another star

"Hello" will be replaced with "Instant Death Five Generations" and goodbye replaced with attempts at mma-based murder strikes

Your grandchildren will throw temper tantrums when their cereal doesn't kill them. Consider it the greatest betrayal of their lives. Children's cartoons will mostly be twiching severed limbs interspersed with fancam-style fire-and-brimstone pentecostal bellowing slurmed to incoherence

the youth of our dotage will wander about with the ignorant, gnawing anxiety of livestock that escape the slaughterhouse, unconsciously reenacting their own unrealized gangland-style slayings. Marriage proposals will take place prone and limp, unmoving rather than kneeling

the future will be so fucked up they'll have kids do drills to prepare them for if they *aren't* attacked by an active shooter

by the year 2060 the word "Email" will be used to describe a number of remotely operated guns regulation-mandated to be attached to consumer devices like smartphones and computers, firing in all directions to ensure maximum carnage. Mostly the same emotional mix as now though

Nintendo will maintain their family-friendly image for their flagship IPs by introducing a sort of Jeff The Killer mario brother on account of most nuclear families will include a creepy serial killer by 2065

In the near future social media will become obsolete as the only topics normal people feel compelled to discuss on a daily basis are being stabbed, stabbing others, drinking blood, omegaverse, eating human remains by moonlight, foreskin restoration, and a new thing called "Evil Omegaverse"

if i'm on a blocklist, whoever made that blocklist wants you stupid and docile and bad at posting. maybe you want that actually. maybe you can't handle this smoke

if you can see past the meme shit (which I honestly think was meant to be exactly as just-dated at the time as it came off) What We Do is like. *vicious* vicious about the current zeitgeist, which a significant part of the band wouldn't even live to see

[american psychically shattered at formative age by state violence trying to explain the poverty of the human spirit under capitalism] imagine infinite hamburgers