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Homicide existed only within the realm of sexual deviancy; a sexual fetishism that was treated as "done for pleasure". Hatred, vengeance, love, devotion, loyalty, and all the things that lock men into constant change was gone, relegated to the entertainment industry. The very idea of experiencing those emotions outside a movie was seen as a sign of insanity. A combination of stoicism and nihilism imbued the whole world's worldview; even thinking of something in a critical way became not just frowned, but mocked relentlessly. Humans were taught to attach themselves to nothing as a principle from birth to death, and religion was first criticized, then discriminated, then accused, then prosecuted, then exterminated, then forever cursed as the ultimate evil. To believe in God was conflated not just to stupidity, but to the only thing this society saw as evil; meaning. To believe that anything deserved action beyond social protocol was the only thing this society feared. AI generated entertainment repeated over and over again a simple narrative; that emotions were the root of all evil, that the world was meaningless, and that the people of the past were stupid.