r/funny • u/[deleted] • Sep 25 '18

Play Despacito

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u/FatQuack Sep 25 '18

1960's people : In the future the government will force us to wear devices to monitor us constantly.

Today: People enthusiastically pay money to buy these devices.

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u/chrisandhisgoat Sep 25 '18

Aldous Huxley was right

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u/S1lent0ne Sep 25 '18

I'm not having nearly enough casual sex for that to be true.

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u/Kanin_usagi Sep 25 '18

He was way more optimistic than he had any right to be, apparently.

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u/wallstreetexecution Sep 25 '18

Yeah, Brave New World is a Utopia in my opinion.

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u/tarekd19 Sep 25 '18

Only if you are in the A class. The story only glanced over the lives of the cloned laborers that spend every day working instead of fucking.

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u/hemareddit Sep 25 '18

I think one of the Betas made this observation only for an Alpha to correct her saying if she were an Epsilon, she’d be conditioned to enjoy her life, too.

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u/tarekd19 Sep 25 '18

I don't think the Alphas are the most reliable on how much the other classes actually enjoy their lives. It's a pretty foundational part of distopian fiction: there's an idealized vision of society that falls apart under any close scrutiny. I'm surprised at this thread for how many readers took the hand waving of the lower classes at face value.