We have all these dystopian stories where people compete in contests of wits/skill to continue living and we don’t connect that to people performing their pain online to avert a death sentence via GoFundMe.
The dystopia is calling from inside the house. https://t.co/H6hQANvH6q
— Bree (& 🐕🐕) (@mostlybree) March 15, 2019
Indeed. Someone averred that The Hunger Games was so very unrealistic; meanwhile, the Holocaust is a real thing that occurred on this planet in living memory, 50,000+ die from opioid overdoses a year, mass shootings are common, lack of health care kills tens of thousands more, we drone bomb people daily, and climate change is fairly likely to make the entire human race go extinct.
Their notion of realism is severely, severely fucked.