@snowy Hahaha in real life we would never build a world wide interconnected global network and connect literally every single device on it using outdated network protocols for absolutely no reason. Imagine who would be so stupid?

@snowy same reason we apparently can’t just build an internet without google anymore, and why even public services are increasingly getting inaccessible to people without a smartphone that can run android or iOS apps. or why the US can’t have nice passenger rail.

when some technology turns from convenience into majority lifestyle, people tend to build everything under the assumption that it will be sustainable forever, and its existence becomes firmly enmeshed with the systems that society runs on.

unplugging from the net means unplugging from society, and that’s terrifying. you are perfectly healthy as a human being, but a weak and retarded blob of meat as a member of a cyborg society. and, as we see with current-day america, keeping the masses in a state of constant terror by making them feel like it only takes one bad day for them to ruin the rest of their lives ensures that revolutionary thought will never fall on fertile ground.

@snowy what happens instead is that people turn to fast-acting drugs to rid them of their disease. and authoritarian dictatorship is one hell of a drug.