This has broader implications about how incentives are structured — the presence of a reward for not doing something versus the desired outcome of taking the action. To my mind, incentives can only delay such a thing, never actually forestall it for certain.
Read MoreSocial murder is, essentially, the creation of widespread death by making the conditions of continued survival inaccessible through social means. It is the use of laws, rules, and bureaucracy to “put your death in the passive voice.”
Read MoreIt’s often called the “sheepdog mentality” but I prefer to swap out “mentality” for “delusion”: The basic idea is that there are three types of people: the vast majority of people are sheep, (fundamentally harmless and fairly useless) who are preyed upon by wolves (bad people) and must be protected by sheepdogs (“good guys” who are willing to use violence.)
Read MoreI’m generally not a fan of mixing comedy and horror. Mixing the two can have the disastrous effect of collapsing the horror into mere farce. I’m delighted to say that Horrorstör doesn’t do that: the comedy is found in the perspectives and reactions of the characters instead of the absurdity of events that surround them. It achieves its goal by placing a comic perspective within the context of horrific events.
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