{"id":11454,"date":"2017-04-30T10:38:47","date_gmt":"2017-04-30T02:38:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.visakanv.com\/blog\/?p=11454"},"modified":"2017-04-30T10:38:47","modified_gmt":"2017-04-30T02:38:47","slug":"dystopia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.visakanv.com\/archives\/2017\/04\/30\/dystopia\/","title":{"rendered":"Real Life Is Dystopian"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Lately I&#8217;ve been collecting\u00a0factoids that I&#8217;ve found dystopian about\u00a0the world we already inhabit.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/meakoopa\/status\/922951674515410944\">A mirror that insists that cancer patients smile<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/imgur.com\/gallery\/Tqhhv\">HK&#8217;s coffin cubicles<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/AskReddit\/comments\/6kslsc\/uber_and_lyft_drivers_whats_your_most_nsfw_story\/djok08d\/\">&#8220;&#8230; you have to pay for ambulances?&#8221;<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/isamyelyah\/status\/869873355691880448\">&#8220;A pile of CVs was found next to his body.&#8221;<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Favstar_Bot\/status\/865044313016750080\">Congrats on your 500 &lt;3 tweet!<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.newyorker.com\/culture\/jia-tolentino\/the-gig-economy-celebrates-working-yourself-to-death\">The Gig Economy Celebrates Working Yourself To Death<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/LateStageCapitalism\/comments\/53y1y6\/lyft_with_no_paid_maternity_leave_celebrates\/\">Lyft celebrates\u00a0pregnant driver who worked until she went into labor (&#8220;Golden Fistbump&#8221;)<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/feministjourney\/status\/841156011780116480?lang=en\">Interview gets cancelled because prospect asks about compensation<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/nathanjurgenson\/status\/851785535471353857\">Crowdfunding medical treatments<\/a>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/LateStageCapitalism\/comments\/69egd6\/pretty_much\/\">gofundme<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2014\/08\/03\/nyregion\/the-lives-behind-times-square-cartoon-characters.html\">Times Square costumed characters are undocumented migrants<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/globalnews.ca\/news\/3415620\/woman-offers-undercover-officer-for-25-and-some-chicken-mcnuggets\/\">Sex for $25 + McNuggets<\/a>\u00a0\u2013 charged with prostitution<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hannahdreier\/status\/859873332472295424\">Venezuela president dancing while soldiers shoot tear gas and clash with protesters. Perfect encapsulation of surreal state TV<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/aljazeera\/videos\/10155527287043690\/\">US hired former child soldiers in Iraq<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.statnews.com\/2016\/02\/18\/drug-ads-warning-lists\/\">How drug ad narrators take the scariness out of side effects<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.statnews.com\/2017\/05\/12\/copyright-paper-science-jail\/\">For sharing a scientific paper, a young researcher faces jail time<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/MorbidReality\/comments\/6ayvte\/the_last_person_youd_expect_to_die_in_childbirth\/\">The Last Person You&#8217;d Expect to Die In Childbirth: &#8220;The U.S. has the worst rate of maternal deaths in the developed world, and 60 percent are preventable.&#8221;<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/MorbidReality\/comments\/2wt6aj\/too_young_to_wed_by_stephanie_sinclair\/?utm_content=comments&amp;utm_medium=browse&amp;utm_source=reddit&amp;utm_name=MorbidReality\">Child brides<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/MorbidReality\/comments\/401le9\/a_turkish_firm_sold_roughly_1200_fake_life_vests\/\">A Turkish firm sold roughly 1200 fake life vests to refugees fleeing to the sea. The vests soak up water and sink instead of floating.<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">1. An out-of-work guy gets taken to the hospital in an ambulance<br \/>2. He can\u2019t pay the bill (ambulances are expensive!)<br \/>3. The city sues him to get the money<br \/>4. He misses his court date <br \/>5. Gets arrested <br \/>6. Kills himself in jail<br \/> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/nXqFwcdubj\">https:\/\/t.co\/nXqFwcdubj<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Matt Pearce \ud83e\udd85 (@mattdpearce) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/mattdpearce\/status\/968894003860062208?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">February 28, 2018<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>Interesting reads:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.vanityfair.com\/hollywood\/2014\/08\/dystopian-movie-tropes\">Vanity Fair \u2013 list of dystopian tropes<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=rStL7niR7gs\">Rules for Rulers<\/a>\u00a0[19:32]<\/li>\n<li>Tweetstorm about\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/sigridellis\/status\/855472575115386880\">economies of post-collapse fictional societies<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/gizmodo.com\/tag\/dystopia\">Gizmodo&#8217;s dystopia tag<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/pando.com\/2017\/01\/18\/children-hang-your-gun-arm-inside-chinas-one-child-policy-and-what-mei-fong-gave-become-mother\/\">One child policy<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/AskReddit\/comments\/5j9ju8\/what_becomes_more_fucked_up_the_longer_you_think\/\">https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/AskReddit\/comments\/5j9ju8\/what_becomes_more_fucked_up_the_longer_you_think\/\u00a0<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Triggers:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Pepsi \/ Kendall<\/li>\n<li>United<\/li>\n<li>Kong Hee<\/li>\n<li>Amazon Workers<\/li>\n<li>Trump is POTUS<\/li>\n<li>Selling military drones with passion \/ feminism<\/li>\n<li>People cheering when clowns like Amos Yee and the Malaysian Bomoh get repressed by the state (Thx Sam)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Lately I&#8217;ve been collecting\u00a0factoids that I&#8217;ve found dystopian about\u00a0the world we already inhabit. A mirror that insists that cancer patients smile HK&#8217;s coffin cubicles &#8220;&#8230; you have to pay for ambulances?&#8221; &#8220;A pile of CVs was found next to his body.&#8221; Congrats on your 500 &lt;3 tweet! 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