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I love Manna. It strikes such a tongue-in-cheek deal between outsized, sort of ridiculous outcomes that come off as completely bonkers but still somehow make yo
by saltwatercowboy 3y ago
I love Manna. It strikes such a tongue-in-cheek deal between outsized, sort of ridiculous outcomes that come off as completely bonkers but still somehow make you think.
"Automated management software replaces fast food workers" ---> "Utopians Bought Australia"
Hard to think of other stories that manage that tone. Huxley's Island:
"Self-serving journalist relates psychedelic ethnography" ---> "Magic Mushrooms Cannot Save You From the Forces of Capital"
and Cory Doctorow's Down and Out in the Magic Kingdom, maybe:
"Disenchanted immortal undergoes social death" ---> "Cowboy Hats vs. Entropy"
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