I decided to do a #FreedomShorts post today. To that end, I went looking for a particular Dust story I’d seen a few years ago. In the process of looking, I ran across, and watched, something else. “Capsules” is the story of a culture awash is drugs that don’t just regulate emotions—they create them.
It sounds like just another sci-fi plot…until you realize that sci-fi has been pretty darned good at predicting aspects of the future.
And it’s not just sci-fi…
Remember Jerry Falwell back in the 80s? We had such a good time making fun of all his wacky predictions about the slippery slope our culture was on. Well, now we have drag queens insisting that it is a human right to be able to twerk in front of your toddler, and schools letting them do just that.
Or how about covid? If I had come to you in 2010 and said that in ten years, governments are going to lock down virtually the whole planet and coerce four billion people into taking a dangerous experimental vaccine in response to a manufactured epidemic, you might have thought I was nuts.
Then again, V for Vendetta kind of predicted that too, five years earlier. So I wouldn’t write off the plot of “Capsules” too quickly. I could imagine its story being our reality someday. I hope Big Pharma doesn’t watch this and get any ideas…
“Capsules” hits hard. The subject, the music, the absence of audible dialogue—it all combines into something quite potent and worth the ten minutes. I got a bit choked up more than once.
[Quasi-spoiler alert: I have mixed feelings about the end. They could have gone a lot of different ways. They made an interesting choice. You can LMK in the comments what you think.]
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When I go for my annual checkup both the nurse and the doctor are continually amazed that I respond 'none' when they ask about my medications. They ask again. The reply is unchanging. They can't believe it. The message I finally heard was that I was an anomaly. How sad.
I just heard a horrifying statistic today, that death rates are up about 18% this year. They were about 6% during the Covid lockdowns.
Through their membership in library associations — many librarians listening embrace the tranny culture, and promote it in their libraries because they are expected to do so if they want to belong to the association.