Felt compelled to clean this up so sharing my efforts. Spelling, grammar, and paragraphs matter!
I can't even hear my TV over this nonsense. I can't even hear my TV.
I know it's just a single fucking sentence [it's really two], but I'll be damned if there's one that so perfectly encapsulates the absolute state of modern society.
This person is not angry at being locked in like an animal, of their freedoms being curtailed, the government literally deciding what goes into their body, and what doesn't, the replacement of their culture, the impending economic collapse, no.
But you know what gets them angry?
You know what grinds their gears?
The noise of people who actually protest drowning out their TV. That's what gets them to stand up and shake their fist in anger.
Comfort above all else, no matter what happens tomorrow.
I said it before and I'll say it again - no novelist who painted a dystopian picture of the future could have predicted people would be this fucking retarded.
Complacent, sure, but to be so utterly fucking brain-dead to the point they do not only not resist but actively support and demand their oppression while getting precisely nothing out of it?
This would baffle just about any 20th century intellectual.
to the point they do not only not resist but actively support and demand
to the point they not only do not resist, but actively support and demand...
For improved clarity I would suggest "they not only don't resist," or even better, "they not only refrain from resisting." TBF it was pretty good to start with IMHO, by today's internet standards :p
Felt compelled to clean this up so sharing my efforts. Spelling, grammar, and paragraphs matter!
I know it's just a single fucking sentence [it's really two], but I'll be damned if there's one that so perfectly encapsulates the absolute state of modern society.
This person is not angry at being locked in like an animal, of their freedoms being curtailed, the government literally deciding what goes into their body, and what doesn't, the replacement of their culture, the impending economic collapse, no.
But you know what gets them angry?
You know what grinds their gears?
The noise of people who actually protest drowning out their TV. That's what gets them to stand up and shake their fist in anger.
Comfort above all else, no matter what happens tomorrow.
I said it before and I'll say it again - no novelist who painted a dystopian picture of the future could have predicted people would be this fucking retarded.
Complacent, sure, but to be so utterly fucking brain-dead to the point they do not only not resist but actively support and demand their oppression while getting precisely nothing out of it?
This would baffle just about any 20th century intellectual.
to the point they not only do not resist, but actively support and demand...
For improved clarity I would suggest "they not only don't resist," or even better, "they not only refrain from resisting." TBF it was pretty good to start with IMHO, by today's internet standards :p
/wordnerd
Yeah, I did my best to change as little as possible, but I would have worded much of it differently if I was writing this from scratch.