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Magic's avatar

Great read. Ready Player 1 came to mind as reading it. It’s amazing how many once clear and obvious truths are oscillating between profound thought and ____ - phobic

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"capitalist institutions are no longer afraid of Black conspiracy theories in 2023 because they don’t believe that the masses of Black people are going to do anything that conflicts with capitalist values and interests."

Man, you really roll some grenades into the room with this one. (That is a compliment coming from me, lest it seem ambiguous.) Also: "Reports suggest that there is a class of young people who experience so much anxiety around day-to-day life that they are energized and enthused by people who display extreme sub-human mediocrity." YES

That said, I enjoyed THEY CLONED TYRONE on its own merits and thought it was very funny. But I think that your overall judgment is acute; it serves up a dish of actual learned helplessness along with its satirical assessment of learned helplessness. "Whatcha gonna do? Nothin'" seems to be the moral.

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