Of course, since the writers lived “here”, were all human and shaped by many of the same events. The question is what does that middle circle contain? I could be banal like “has human characters”…
Currently it’s technically “what’s common in all 4 of those books”, tho. I guess union and not intersection is a bit more suitable, but still not quite, and I’m too lazy to try to remember set theory stuff and search for something better
30 will be here a lot quicker than you think. I also used to think 30 was old AF when I was 20.
Now I'm 41 and I don't know how it happened so goddamn fast. Every year, I get more and more anxious about trying to get shit done before my time comes.
Contrary to popular similar stories I had the feeling that I was in my 20-25s for “I was there for a long time” and I was eager for the next decades (with a small break for depression but I got through) Now I’m 28 and it kinda feels it speeds up but I don’t complain (but I do complain about everything else, A LOT)
It does speeds up. I remember my teens and 20’s and they weren’t that short. But next 2 decades are a blur. Either some brain quirk or just mindless drudgery taking up 80% or my time did that.
yea makes sense given that at your 30s-40s it’s very likely that you’ve end up at your “career path” and after 1-2 years working on the same thing (otherwise you’d be full of stress) it becomes very mundane
Acquire property to call my own for one. This renting thing is getting real old. Something to leave my kid other than a busted up old car would be nice.
Edit: Hey, looks like zoomers and old millennials aren't so different after all. They're right. The fuckin' boomers took it all.
I’ve always interpreted that movie as the exact opposite. Here’s what happens if you replace natural selection with corporate interest. The guy who time traveled was not a genius in his time.
Venn diagrams representing more than 3 sets don’t work if you keep using 2d circles to represent all the sets. For example, in this diagram there’s no intersection of ºF451 with and only with BNW, or 1984 with and only with AHT.
I get that the picture is more art than an actual representation of anything. With that said even as art The Matrix in my opinion doesn’t really fit there. Like it’s entirely within the bounds of The Handmaid’s Tale so keeping with the Ven Diagram aesthetic with artistic license it means that The Matrix is most like The Handmaid’s tale, which isn’t not. The Handmaid’s Tale is a feminist story about the domination of women in society, The Matrix is a philosophical exploration of the questions what is real and do we have free choice.
Maybe the argument could be made they’re both about choice but that feels hollow. Maybe put The Hunger Games there I’m definitely over thinking this.
Some of those intermediaries make no sense to me lol. Feels like they were just plopped in since they’re ‘dystopian’.
Why isn’t Clockwork Orange directly between 1984 and BNW? It’s all about drugs and gangs then law catching up to them in over the top ways. Why is Soylent Green there? Isn’t that just full on eat people because we’re recycling? How is that anything close to BNW? Maybe some brutalist efficient elements but that doesnt make sense for either 1984 or BNW. 1984 never had the sense of efficiency. It was all about gaslighting, false narrator, and an unknown system trying to make alternative facts…
The film doesn’t make it clear, but the novel of A Clockwork Orange, it’s definitely a dystopian future England which is turning into a police state because of the huge number of youth gangs.
The “recycling” in Soylent Green is due to global warming and overpopulation causing a bunch of food scarcity. It’s definitely prescient in that way, but also weird in the context of the diagram.
I disagree because genetic therapy freely available at gatacca levels plus spaceships, and artificial intelligence freely available and fusion tech freely available at the matrix level are inexistent
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