Sep 5, 2024
The Chi 6x8 | “Who Shot Ya?”
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The Chi 6x8 | “Who Shot Ya?”
Food delivery apps are a harbinger of decline.
The Victorians were obsessed with the idea of the future. Unlike the dystopias of the 20th century, crafted through the horrors of war and tyranny, the Victorian futurists imagined bright, mechanised utopias where technology delivered fairness, abundance, and joy.
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These naïve dreamers, like travel writers, sketched public life: what people ate, how they moved, what they saw in the street. By those same measures, what would a time traveller from 2015 notice first about London’s streets today?
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Our traveller would recognise takeaways—but not their ubiquitous dominance. McDonald’s redesigned with special entrances for couriers; ‘restaurants’ existing only as kitchens hidden in industrial estates; entire towns deserted on a Saturday night save for huddles of riders staring grimly at their phones, waiting for the next order. While French illustrator Albert Robida, another of the Victorian futurists, imagined cheerful citizens buzzing overhead in personal flying machines, our most visible technological leap is the rise of the takeaway app. And it has not been a positive one.
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Take the typical Deliveroo journey. You slump at home, seduced by an app cynically engineered to maximise habit, with all its colours and noises and whimsy calling you like the Sirens’ wail designed to lure Odysseus to his doom. The order pings to a dark kitchen posing as half a dozen different restaurants, where processed food is pumped into plastic tubs. A rider collects it—often on an illegal moped, often underpaid or illegally in the country, sometimes renting someone else’s account. If you’re unlucky, you become one of the one-third of women between 18 and 34 who have reported harassment by predatory follow-up texts from delivery riders. And finally, the prize: a box of overpriced slop that brings a brief dopamine hit, followed by guilt and indigestion, like a rat in a cage. It’s a grim caricature, but it’s not far from a typical Deliveroo experience. It is an ecosystem where everyone loses, except the shareholders. Riders’ wages are driven down, young people are crowded out of casual jobs once done by students, and customers are nudged into habits that fuel obesity, loneliness, and debt.
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The Telegraph’s Judith Woods put it bluntly: “How did we reach the point in civilisation where people are too entitled and lazy to get up off the sofa and fetch their own sodding crisps?”
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Yet the real issue is moral. Adam Smith, so often invoked as a free-market champion, was equally clear in The Theory of Moral Sentiments that markets depend on virtue and “self-command.” A society of selfish individuals only works if those individuals restrain themselves. Convenience without discipline erodes that foundation. Politicians rarely speak this language now. JFK once warned Americans they were becoming physically and mentally “flabby.” No British politician would dare to call out the responsibility of the individual. But we remain the sick man of Europe, with ballooning welfare costs and waistlines that have grown eerily in lockstep with Deliveroo’s market cap. If the Victorians dreamed of gleaming futures powered by invention, our most visible technology is an army of underpaid, illegal riders delivering plastic boxes of cold Tandoori. For an accurate allegory of where we are headed, we need not look at Morris’ egalitarian commune, or Huxley, or Orwell, but Disney’s Wall-E, with its pathetic band of humans coddled in their floating chairs dumbing out on screens.
Here's what we know about the Leader so far: A summary to combat my incurable forgetful bitch disease
He is / was a human, but now he may be something more.
He created the 'cult' Eyes of Mercy, the one where Anastasia, N, Ariel, possibly Mili and an alternate Ezra/Bradley couple works at.
He wants to 'cure' the Universe of all Evil, because they believe the Universe can exist in a balance of Good/Neutral, instead of Good/Evil
He has a cruel side and a bratty side
He has brown eyes, but looks almost exactly like the standard Stanley
He has a crush on Bradleys - or just a crush on Maso which he shows in a very creepy predatory way
He erased standard!Jonathan's memories of him, and apparently used to be his Stanley before Stellan
Stellan, Stanley and Maelle never met him,
He used to date Dad Jon, or used to be in love with him
He has a black/white view of the world and believes that sacrificing one life to save thousands is justifiable
He watched everyone via cameras where possible, memories and reports of his minions and sometimes, he came by personally as an anonymous Stanley to interact when he thought it was necessary
Believes his past experiences is enough to grant him authority over important decisions, such as life/death, and controlling Universal events
He was 23 when he disappeared, which is the same age Stellan was when he started, putting him at 27 now.
He hinted at the possibility that Jon killed him by accident and that (a/his) Bradley may have had something to do with it
He has technology and maybe magic? that’s more advanced than standard technology around the Office. He also was the one who made those ~magic handcuffs~ which suppress any powers, even from gods. He was also able to hide himself from Icarus for years
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