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Did they have bribery in the form of mobile Fast Food trucks?
Probably not, but everything else checks out.
I'm only disappointed I won't get to read the history books 300 years from now when they cite twitter posts and AI generated videos.
Basically, but not for the emperors
You are assuming that we will still have civilization by that point and have not died out from lack of food idiocracy style... which the way we are going... is not so unlikely scenario now... 10 years ago I'd say you're crazy... but now i am putting civilization collapse by 2100 on my posthumous bingo card...
Buddy, collapse is happening RIGHT NOW. You're in it. Whatever Mad Max post apocalyptic vision you have? Throw it out. What is happening right now outside your home at this moment, this is what collapse looks like.
It's not complete, though, and most people will only recognize in retrospect that it was happening at all. Kind of like how people are with genocides, now that I think of it.
I believe "complete" is relative in this case. Collapse is a process and not an event, people seem to miss that a lot. I think a lot of the reason why people only see it in retrospect is because they're all waiting to see some big glorious fire ball. But the truth is, collapse is mostly boring, and then concerning, and then terrifying.
...and then history.
I like to remind people that the first mad Max movie isn't like fury road. It's a mostly normal world that's just starting to fall apart.
ABSOLUTELY. And that first movie was before the nuclear war, so it's literally all about an energy crisis. People feel so comfortable in their modern world that they seem to not be able to imagine just how close to losing it all they are
Well i am trying to do what I can with my votes, but your right, its utter madness out there, bin collections are fortnightly and garden waste now needs a permit to be collected! I nearly dropped me crumpet in me tea I did guv!
You joke, but if you met anybody that lives in Syria about a decade ago, they would tell you this is exactly what it looks like. It's what it looked like for people about a year and a half ago in Palestine, and it's what it looked like to Soviet citizens in 1989. So keep making jokes, don't believe it, whatever. But it IS happening
What if AI is actually Skynet, but because it's consumed all the word's media, it has seen the Terminator movies and thus knows that a blatant attack would be an inefficient way to get rid of humans, so it's working to make us dumber and dumber and get us to simply kill ourselves off.
I suspect bribery was just "gift exchanging" back in those days