2026-10-16 23:39 UTC
I had this with Interstellar. The story is that most plants died and they can’t grow food but corn. So they’re at a baseball game and this older character says “Popcorn?! I’m sick of corn, I want a hotdog”. He knows there aren’t hotdogs anymore, he’s just frustrated at the situation. Nobody responds.
That’s the moment everyone should have jumped up to shut up grandpa. You can’t say that! Billions died, you insensitive asshat. Be glad you have food. Eating meat would be socially unacceptable because you can’t feed society that way anymore. It would be on the level of grandpa saying old-timey racist shit out loud in public
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@Earthwormjim91@lemmy.world 2026-10-17 06:17
No that’s realistic lol. Nobody would have said shit other than to agree, because after all of that everyone would want a hot dog. Humans in general don’t deal with mass change that well. Look at Covid. They’d bitch at the government, bitch at their neighbors, and find a nationalized group to blame for why the way of life changed. It wasn’t that long of a time period in interstellar. The whole collapse happened over about 30 years. So anyone over around 40 would have remembered a normal time and would agree with grandpa. They’d have seen their lives get worse and worse and desperately want to go back to the old life.