Moebius,I see that you’re creating a Dystopian Society as evidenced
by your plans on the internet. It looks like you’ve covered the
landscapes, architecture, and square soda cans (nothing says
“Dystopian” like square soda cans) but I wanted to offer my plans to
create a truly functioning hell-hole.So hear me out.
The first step is to create an unethical set of beliefs which cannot
be modified over time. The set of beliefs has to be a mixture of
vitriol, compassion, ridiculous rules, odd stories, antiquated
language, loathsome characters, loving characters, and an unevidenced
all-powerful god hoisted above all else. There is no reason to believe
in any of it mind you, but to counteract any questioning soul this set
of beliefs regards the following to be the most hallowed of beliefs:
that believing in this set of beliefs in spite of no evidence is the
most wonderful belief of all!Imagine that! People believing in something which has no
evidence…and feeling good, no GREAT, about it!Dystopian Mob: “God made turtles!”
Skeptic: “Where’s your evidence?”
Dystopian Mob: “I have FAITH! I need not any evidence! You shall burn
for your insolence Heretic!”Here I’ll make up a rule, “You can’t eat bread on every third
Thursday”. Someone may say, “But why…why eat no bread every third
Thursday? Is there any good reason not to?” To which the Dystopian mob
replies, “We have Faith! Faith that there’s no good reason to do this
other than the fact that god wills us to do so!”Isn’t it great? Billions of people all believing something based on
the presumption that an imaginary being wills them to do so. Never
mind that it doesn’t make sense. Never mind that there isn’t any
evidence. Let’s base our Dystopian World on this and this
alone…things will turn out just swell.We don’t need stuff like Stem Cell Research anyhow.
A fellow Dystopian Enthusiast,
Tyler
Hi Tyler,And a very happy new year to you… sorry was offline over the holidays so was unable to reply sooner… got in late last night.
Great to hear from another Dystopian enthusiast (“zealot” in my case). Wish that I was really creating a “society”, but unfortunately it’s more the 3D props, environment and assets that serve only as a backdrop for a dystopian society. While total world domination and realigning reality is not totally off the books, RealLife™ has me busy these days.
Would love to hear more from you… and perhaps you’d like to share your thoughts with other like-minded individuals… join us on our forums! There are tons more bits and pieces of information scattered throughout our forum… from the planetary characteristics of the city planet… the socio-cultural backdrop… the calendar… time… sectoral governance… technologies… weapons… and yada, yada, yada…
You may have a bit of trouble logging in from a gmail account (because spammers and spambots are notorious for using gmail, so it’s been blacklisted by Shadow Corps), but once you’ve set up the account send me a reminder at admin@team-dystopia.com and we will manually override the securities for you and get you a temp password that you can reset later on.
Looking forward to hearing from you.
Cheers! — Möe
Moe,Good to hear from you. After reading this Slate.com article by Sarah A. Topol I can’t help but worry that our world is already loaded with the refuse that is religious ideology.
A man killed for criticizing a Blasphemy Law because criticizing a Blasphemy Law is Blasphemy itself. An all-powerful god can’t handle human beings besmirching his name.
Fuck that.
If god cared he would smite the blasphemer. If god gave a shit he wouldn’t kill babies, but he doesn’t you know why? God isn’t real. The problem is when people all believe he is and believe they are doing what god wants. None of this is evidence-based, none of this is necessary, none of this is humane.
Let’s live based on reason and things we know. Is it too much to ask?
Tyler, Zealot
