#hypothetical conditional

[wageronancap]

The Golden Rule is a hypothetical conditional and therefore impossible to comprehend by NPCs.

[wageronancap]

The corporations locked boomers in an entertainment-cultural version of Medieval Stasis and groomed them into becoming NPCs in a two-for-one deal wherein boomers rarely witnessed lasting impact of consequences in their stories and thereby never learned to link cause-and-effect in their own lives, while the corps got rich because of the ad revenue from the same I Love Lucy episode every week

Bonus, the boomers freak out about change because they were never provided examples of it happening and how to deal both in the moment and long term

Double bonus, this explains why Netflix cancels shows within three seasons: they (mostly correctly) do not trust their audience to sustain through 10 seasons of 26 episodes each in a way that that can monetize rapidly, so they simple just jump from New Hotness™ to New Hotness™ and are always riding hype trains (but are utterly baffled at the success of cult followings of long-form content like Critical Role)

Triple bonus, get fucked zoomers and your reels and tiktoks and short-form content, you're also being farmed for your inability to hold an attention span

[wageronancap]

Everyone marvels at the concept of "trophic cascade" in nature but the moment you start to suggest that the same concept could occur in politics or economics suddenly there's absolutely no depth, interactivity/reactivity, or complexity involved and we're sternly told to "trust the experts" and anyone not marching along is ostracized from "civilized" society