Jake Paul Won't Give Up Partying Despite Backlash For Throwing Ragers During Pandemic

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6. Help, I've fallen into a dystopian nightmare and I can't wake up...

My jaw dropped when I read the OP. Thank you for the insight, and I mean that, Celerity.

I have no idea if this is relatable at all, but almost from the time I could read I chowed down on science fiction, which came home in a succession of boxes from Dad’s workmates and left again when we were all done. We weren’t “fans” and we didn’t talk about what we were reading; it was pure solitary escapism at the time, the ‘50s thru ‘60s (what we did talk about was anything Mom thought was real literature). The point is, this was post WWII and there was a heavy vein of atomic post-apocalyptic sf writing along with dystopian-future what-if sf, and the echoes are still there.

Every so often the echoes are forcefully re-awakened (because real literature sticks with you, no matter what you call it). Some of those authors were damned prescient, and we are now at a crossroads where technology, politics, and massive cultural shifts are colliding — it’s extraordinarily stressful for all humans, but when I read about these kids I felt like a neuron had hit the bug zapper. My neuron.

I hope they survive to mental maturity, is the best I can say. I wish them no harm from the plague.