Posted on 02/17/2022 5:00:41 PM PST by BipolarBob
Cassidy Ward Wed, February 16, 2022, 11:09 AM CST Released in 1973, Soylent Green imagines a dystopian nightmare version of 2022 in which overpopulation and climate disaster have made the Earth nearly unlivable. Resource and housing shortages have exacerbated class stratification, with the wealthy living in lush, reinforced houses while the rest of the population is scrounging for scraps just to survive.
With not enough to eat, half of the world's population is sustained only by a staple food source created and sold by the Soylent Corporation. It comes in various colors, the best of which is the titular Soylent Green. The company bills their new green variety as more nutritious, having been manufactured from oceanic plankton, but by the end we know the truth. Soylent Green is people!
The film was a stark commentary about the dangers of destroying our environment and the lengths to which some corporations could go to maintain profit. Now that we're actually in 2022, the world has seen an increase in novelty foods, including one supposed meal replacement shake named after the famed movie.
The question now is, could we really make Soylent? And would we want to?
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People think it would be like Soylent Green.
But it would be more like Hannibal Lector.
Correct.
So here's a point. In this pandemonium of a media-fueled pandemic, governments and media made disctinctions between "essential" and non-essential" services. Seems to me, most of the administrative state is non-essential. Much media as well.
For sure.
We were better off as a nation when we had far less government.
Hannibal tells me never eat a liberal, no matter how you cook them the taste is always bitter.
FYI: cartels along the US southern border have taken up the battle by using cannibalism as a terror weapon. Usually they don’t bother to cook their meals ...
Jonathan Swift thought so but only Irish children ...
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It was only a modest proposal ...
Always heard the early whites in America oppressed the Native Americans. I say we brought them Christianity.
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“Native Americans” were quite used to being oppressed and being oppressors. It was not a new condition for them. It only became an issue when proto-liberals began going all Karen over the “oppression”.
Actually, I think it was the Cherokee (for one) that had a religion which was based on all the tenants of Christianity, including a savior, brought to them long before the arrival of the Europeans - according to standard history. (no link, sorry).
True but
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