• kvasir476@lemmy.world
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    2 months ago

    It’s been near 15 years since I read it, but it’s kind of a cautionary tale about tradition, superstition, and how easily humans succumb to their base impulses and can commit insane violence.

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      2 months ago

      The qualifier base is exactly right. Like we use base as a pejorative, but it is what we are. That is our base state.

      You know what itd take to drop us back to this level? I would say about a week without electricity. If you said to any given group of what, 50 people. Pick numbers out of a hat. The person with the dot dies, but the electricity comes back on. That would be enough.