This is a projection in Oakland. You can find the original art here.
The way-back machine found a March 2023 Reddit post by Aaron Bushnell where he said, “I’ve realized that a lot of the difference between me and my less radical friends is that they are less capable of imagining a better world than I am. I follow YouTubers like Andrewism that fill my head with concrete images of free, post-scarcity communities, and it makes me so much more prepared to reject things about the current world, because I’ve imagined how things could be and that helps me see how extremely bullshit things are right now.”
If you care to see the full quote, you can check @tinythunders on Twitter or Andrewism’s YouTube Channel, the community tab.
A fictitious story that assumes peoples' behavior against those they cannot feel being inexplicable violence in no way what so ever reflects on rational reality in any way.
People already don't feel others' pain and most see the benefit in not mistreating other things, let alone other people.
Also, why the flying fuck would people break in to feel something vicariously that they were already directly feeling via the drug's effects?? That short story is illogical even within its own universe.
yeah that story just reeks of "oooo look how smart i am, people bad!"
fuck off with that shit, humans are pathologically empathic and will risk their own lives to save wild animals