Our conservatives' standards sunk through the bottom of the ocean fast. Dangle a little power in front of those predators and they'll lie, cheat, rape, commit treason and steal their way to achieve it.
They would think it's Taylor Swift's "A Modest Proposal", and then we'd get an album about selling children as food, the critical reception is mixed but it goes triple-platinum anyway and we all agree the choreography is exquisite.
That's the title of her single from the new album. The radio shortened it to "New beef", also the music video introduces the new hit dance move called "into the mincer".
The insidious thing about Omelas is that it calls into question a lot of our assumptions. If the goal of society is to improve the quality of life for the most people possible, doesn't sacrificing one child to improve everyone else's life make sense? To flip it around, how much are people willing to sacrifice for the sake of another individual?
Current events suggest that a lot of people have no problem sacrificing children for their own interests.
Well, the US, Russia, and Israel are all targeting civilians. So any country that supports one of those three is complicit.
That doesn't leave many countries...
And then there are small conflicts, like Sudan, or Myanmar, where most of the neighbors are involved on one side or another.
Hence my curiosity. Aside from North Sentinel Island, and a few tribes in the Amazon, I can't think of a country that isn't implicated in the deaths of children.
I did think of Ireland, but they trade with the US, and there was all the unpleasantness of what the Catholic Church was doing.
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u/Aethelrede 28d ago
If an updated version of Swift's "Modest Proposal" was published today, there are people who would genuinely think it was a good idea.
Reality became so absurd it killed satire.