rant · moment 18 of 41
Billionaire Smart Cities and the Death of Democracy
from #247 - Scream At The Sky (ft. Yannis Pappas) | The Tim Dillon Show · #247
2 min
They joke about billionaires building private biometric smart cities, and Tim argues democracy has proven itself a failure because people just want nachos with liquid cheese.
- Billionaires will build their own cities with biometric scanning, credit score checks, and medical history requirements for entry.
- Democracy has failed—when given freedom, people just want nachos with liquid cheese and devices to roll them around.
- Tim notes it's tough to argue for democracy as a system from any podium right now.
- Decades of trash talk shows, reality TV, and mind-numbingly bad entertainment have rotted people's brains.
- Brain rot makes people susceptible to conspiracy theories like QAnon because they've lost all love for knowledge.
- Non-fiction doesn't compete with fiction because fiction is more engaging, and right now non-fiction needs to be just as compelling.