Quote (thesnipa @ Aug 14 2023 04:55pm)
The world is both quickly and slowly transitioning into a place where in person interaction and human labor are no longer a prerequisite of a well-functioning society. Automation strips the world of jobs that require this labor. And one of the resources previously abundant, land and real estate, is growing ever scarcer. In person socialization has taken a nose dive in recent decades and continues a steady decline, social groups shift continually online to social media platforms. Social clubs struggle to gain new members and will eventually at this pace die with the generation of boomers when their continual decline eventually leaves them in a place where they’re not worth running. 1-2 bedroom apartments no longer offer a much lower price rent, but instead offer just a place to live because houses on the open market are so scarce and contested they don’t need to fill an economic niche, they’re now a service with little alternative.
Into the world enters pokemon go, from a glance just a nostalgic mobile game that saw surprising instant success in the market. Laden with fond memories of childhood and microtransactions the game went from zero to many millions of users seemingly overnight. Spurred on by negative press from typifying events such as car accidents and trespassing charges the game didn’t show any signs of slowing. However, when we look at the tertiary effects of the game we see why it was far more than just a trip down memory lane. In almost no time at all it quickly reversed the long term trends of the 2010s. People were flocking to public parks, forming social groups to go out and hunt down rare pokemon, and sharing information with strangers in public while making new friends.
Clearly this posed a threat to the new world order, who’d fought hard to prepare the general population for the world that was to come. Robotic in nature we must be groomed to accept the white walled apartments of our future. We must expect to shop online with what little pittance we’re given. We must seek what little socialization we require online, safe in our homes, safe from the polluted air that permeates the globe. Not out chasing down a charizard or spending cash fruitlessly on more pokeballs, but seeing the resources of the world as scarce and unattainable.
That is why, as it’s clear to me, the US govt in congruence with China formulated a plan to lock down the population, spur on inflation to make cash in the hands of the population scarce, increase building material costs, and inflate the US housing market through a series of negligent interest rate stagnation and free money printing. Pokemon go wasn’t a fun and wistful mobile game, it was the catalyst for a course shift in the new world order’s plans. We could no longer be slowly herded into the sheering paddock, we must be led in by dogs at our heels whilst out fellow sheep bite at our ears in fear of the Sheppard’s hook.
I lost brain cells reading that