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Craig Butcher's avatar

You are correct, it's not a solution, it's just the etiology of how the fatal sickness kills its victim. The people grow so weary of the venality and stupidity and cruelty and idiocy they throw up their hands and say, this is inevitable anyway, might as well skip the intervening events of the novel and jump right to the last page-- where the boot is smashing the human face forever and we decide to love big brother. The scary part is when people like me have these thoughts, it means the mass not only has the thoughts, but actually loves the idea. It means we've crossed the event horizon, no worldlines from here lead anywhere but to the final singularity.

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R Mercer's avatar

Sadly, I think you are correct... and I am kind of in the same spot.

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