Comments on: Quote note (#137)

By: Al

Al — Tue, 09 Dec 2014 20:24:28 +0000

Los Angeles has shiny towers and plenty of squalor with armed police members everywhere, resembling a Brazilian city.

As a Brazilian, I have to protest against this prejudice-laden mischaracterization of my beloved country. If Brazilian cities had armed police members everywhere, Brazil would not have something close to 70,000 murders every year, and the living conditions here would improve markedly. If we actually started putting violent criminals in jail, then… – just the thought brings tears to my eyes. Of course, there’s no chance in hell of that happening.

In you want something resembling a Brazilian city for your dystopia, put in the squalor, and leave the police almost entirely out of the picture, with at the most a token presence along some of the more touristy areas of cities like Rio de Janeiro.

Thankfully, conditions outside the major metropolises are much better because there are so much fewer criminals in the heartland.

By: admin

admin — Tue, 09 Dec 2014 03:43:31 +0000

I like the fact it’s half comedy and half “Holy s**t!”

By: sobl

sobl — Tue, 09 Dec 2014 01:33:55 +0000

Thanks Outsideness. I put it on for a laugh and then was struck by the creepy believability.

By: mlaurel

mlaurel — Tue, 09 Dec 2014 01:23:28 +0000

Seeing as how both economic disaster and the Big One are still on the table, this looks eerily like the Modern USA. Except There will be no Los Angeles with towers, that’s for sure.

Picture the Big One hitting Silicon Valley. What will that do to America? What will that do to the world? Time will tell.

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