I mean, shouldn’t Joker be out, throwing disco parties and killing people with laughing gas?
Shouldn’t Trixie be out, enslaving cities and making women her personal slaves and maids?
Shouldn’t Turd Furgeson be out, being a politician and taking away our rights?
Shouldn’t Ecmandu be out, destroying our universe and building a better one for us and filling it with sexual puppets?
Shouldn’t Satyr be out, going to symphonies and killing flutists who play one wrong note, the “rude”?
I mean, I think of it like this. Imagine if there was no Internet, and noone to relate to. Sitting at home all day, feeling superior to everybody, noone to talk to except Batman. That’s how it is in comic book land. But with the internet, that all changes. The stress never exceeds a threshold where they say “Fuck it”, I’m sick of sitting in my room doing nothing, have nothing left for me here, I’m gonna commit a crime, so they can put me in another room where I can do nothing. Because online it’s like, not so alien. Also, because of violent computer games, satiating the boredom, making people less likely to be violent.
I think its mostly prisons and people with guns, which save us/humanity from criminality. On the more everyday level though, it is distractions [tech, tv etc] which are the opium of the people and its pacifier. So I suppose ilp comes into the latter.
That part with the flutist was done very sloppily in the movie. In the book they elaborated a bit more on who the flutist was and why Lecter killed him.
The revolution and inevitable chaos will not be televised nor will it be up uploaded on your internet broadband for that matter. The internet exists purely for communication, frustration venting, and idea exchanges. Although eventually the internet will become illegal also at some point in the near future, so enjoy it while you can because the cyber end is near at hand. Eventually all of this internet won’t exist either where political purges followed by gulag camps are right around the corner.
As for my plans I have plenty but I’m smart enough to wait for when the world to turns to absolute shit before I act on them. I’m just being a good little debt slave for the time being keeping out of trouble buying my time. All great things come to those who wait.
