>>15626558It used to be quite nice until it became ground zero for testing new means of social management. Society as a prison. If you're a good prisoner and behave productively and play by the guards' rules, you will live in a constant state of stress and die early saving the prison money. If you're clever you'll find ways to join the guards, who still have stresses and worries, and will be the first to die if the inmates ever revolt, but they probably won't and life will be an attendance-based reverie and you'll die whenever. If you're ruthless to even your fellow guards, or were blessed enough to be born in the guard-ruling caste, none of the usual rules apply to you, and you'll be aware of this unlike generational wealth in the past, and you'll do your part to ensure the guards and inmates live up to their obligations. And for someone like me, it's a lifetime in solitary confinement. The third vaccine thing when every organisation almost is saying they're basically useless for now, come back in fall, is a regime power flex. The longer you wait to take the knee, the longer you'll have to wait to catch up to the inmates. These stupid things are now marketed like oscillococcinum is and promise exactly the same, lots of mays, but the regime would lose face, and these are dumb, brittle men and women, so just do it or be excluded. So exclusion it is. The thing about Pascal's Wager, in the end it's not about wasting your life. Who calculates that in a godless universe anyway? How can you be happy knowing every act of acquiescence just emboldens the absolutely corrupt? And they know that too, and they pat you on the head and say don't hate the mobster, hate the World Builders. I just don't play video games anymore. Sometimes I wish I could.
