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I am so numb to outrage that this just seems... Meh. What happened to me.
It's the world we live in. It's very much intentionally designed to make you complacent.
They spent decades gaslighting you so you thought you were crazy for even imagining it.
yeah like tell me something I don't know.
"This just in: to the surprise of no one, your phone has, in fact, been spying on you from day 1. Now we go to Jim with sports. Jim?"
My grandad said "It's really humid today isn't it?"
I said "Tell me something I don't know!"
He said "Err... Ok........ I can fit my whole fist up yer gran's arse"
Normative nihilism is going to get us all.
This is such a strange reality to live in. All of the futuristic, dystopian fiction I have consumed has the same premise that people living in the dystopia know it and know it's bad. Somehow reality is worse.