is now denny's applebee's max come taste the difference credit cards are out crypto is in now of course we only take bitcoin and other cryptocurrency cause you know it's the future meat is done so crickets are on the menu and honestly i'd rather just go vegetarian you'll see there's some dishes made from insect protein on the menu that of course is because here in the future we've all learned that insects are a valuable and sustainable food and we no longer fear it as food some people can afford a specialized dog optometrist while other people live outside city hall the cars are self-driving but it's not even that fun also music sounds like this as one reporter succinctly summarizes the future certainly sucks but the future isn't just shockingly dumb it also seems pretty lonely on a personal level our favorite bro squad remains torn after decades of animosity but things are also pretty bleak on a broader social level instead of tossing footballs on the playground kids wander around in vr goggles also one dude just shoots someone and happily takes their groceries and then there's how society treats the elderly they're mostly shuttered up in one big building where they sit around refusing to share their emotions it's four o'clock you know what that means it's share time the world's top priority is keeping these old folks alive despite the fact that they all seem pretty miserable and don't get to interact meaningfully with society everyone is alive but none of them get to actually live and most importantly there's stan whose only real relationship appears to be with his hologram alexa who manifests as a badgering wife she nags stan in between offering him special deals on new headphones by the way i can tell you about some great deals on headphones at best buy would you like to know more based on a slowly revealed family tragedy his sister was in the barn and she burned it down because you locked her in the barn because she wouldn't do her weed chores cause she hated weed too his mother couldn't take the loss of shelley and so she killed herself which is your fault stan's grown bitter defensive and suspicious of everyone you judge me you all sit here and judge me we'll all you instead of mourning kenny's death in public he drinks the pain away and passes out in his car though we were intrigued by his pour some wine into your beer cocktail it's not pounding beer and wine i dropped wine shots into the beer it's called a smorgasbine and it's very cultural this vision of the future had us thinking a lot about something called atomism this is a concept that came from greek thinkers democritus and lucifus who envisioned the world as made up of a gajillion tiny atoms philosophers thomas hobbes and john locke then used the concept of atoms to theorize about the way people behave essentially each person functions as their own individual atom pursuing their own goals based on their own motivations but to exist in a society you have to negotiate a balance between your individual interests and your responsibilities to that society aka you gotta sign that metaphorical social contract lots of philosophers since hobbs and locke have debated about just how much people should have to
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