This is brilliantly dark and hits way too close to home. The whole premise of uplifted sheep wanting to go back to being mindless is such a clever flip on the usual transhumanism narratives. Carl's Louis Vuitton fanny pack while hes drowning in debt from two jobs is perfection, its like you captured the whole modern grind in one absurd image. That ending line about wanting to be 'dumb and happy' again really stings.
Thank you so much! I'm so glad this resonated. Definitely one of my more cynical outings, but sometimes it is hard to look around and think, "out of all the possible worlds we could have created, we chose this one."
This is brilliantly dark and hits way too close to home. The whole premise of uplifted sheep wanting to go back to being mindless is such a clever flip on the usual transhumanism narratives. Carl's Louis Vuitton fanny pack while hes drowning in debt from two jobs is perfection, its like you captured the whole modern grind in one absurd image. That ending line about wanting to be 'dumb and happy' again really stings.
Thank you so much! I'm so glad this resonated. Definitely one of my more cynical outings, but sometimes it is hard to look around and think, "out of all the possible worlds we could have created, we chose this one."