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Originally Posted by Da33le
What is your evidence for this?
That the Red Cross and Salvation Army have existed and been well-subscribed long enough to be overrun by corruption?
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Originally Posted by allinontheturn
Mad Max is a dystopian action film wherein anarchy rules.
"Dystopian fiction (sometimes combined with, but distinct from apocalyptic literature) is the opposite: creation of an utterly horrible or degraded society that is generally headed to an irreversible oblivion, or dystopia."
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Originally Posted by JustJ46671
I would have sworn it was Australian.
Side note: I had an English Prof for a writing class that was my crush/pen pal of sorts because Teacher's pet is my wheelhouse...in one e-mail he was discussing his frustration with dystopian universes in pulp fiction ...I had to look the word up...and now somehow the word is associated with him and thus sexy.
So, your post is tl:dr...but I'm gonna grade it as "hot." See me after class.
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Originally Posted by wisski
I agree that religion has a great premise and they're teaching of love, forgiveness, and some things is okay.
What I hate about it is the fact that it breeds the normative behavior you speak of. If humans are made to make the hard decisions instead of just accepting that "God wants them to do it this way". Then I think it would be a great leap in human morality. Could it open the door to humans ultimately deciding that extinction of our race is better than continuing to reproduce, sure. But I like to think it would lead to many greater understandings that we just are not capable of with this whole "we were put here to die and go to heaven" thing we have going on now.
Your point is right and good....if everyone is intelligent and introspective. It overlooks the fact that far less than half the the world is even in your ballpark. Some folks are best designed for chanting and indoctrination, and that's ok. They're less than in one measure, but it doesn't invalidate the rest of their experience.
A whitewashed projection of your own abilities and the responsibilities associated with that skill set is over-simplified, and will not yield the best community results.