When will the technology be advanced enough to maximize the chances of revival? Cause as soon as it is, I might sign up and check out early.
What are the right reasons for wanting to be frozen and revived? Like, I have my various reasons, but I don't know if they're good enough.
Do you worry about being revived and ending up in shittier circumstances than you are in now? How do you overcome or prevent that?
Powerful states often need a story that makes their power feel earned.
A kingdom can say it is expanding for security. An empire can say it is bringing order. A ruler can say conquest is actually protection, education, civilization, destiny, or peace.
The useful part of that story is not that everyone believes it completely. The useful part is that it gives people a clean way to explain something messy.
Taking land becomes “uniting the region.”
Extracting wealth becomes “developing the province.”
Crushing resistance becomes “restoring stability.”
Ignoring criticism becomes “defending the nation.”
The image is exaggerating for comedy, but the pattern is real enough to recognize. Many powerful systems describe their own ambition in moral language because raw ambition sounds ugly. A flattering myth makes it easier for insiders to feel loyal, for leaders to demand sacrifice, and for critics to look like traitors instead of people pointing at obvious problems.
The danger is that the myth also blocks memory.
Older empires already told themselves similar stories. They also believed they were chosen, necessary, more civilized, more rational, more orderly, or more historically important than everyone else. Their names changed. Their symbols changed. Their excuses changed. The pattern stayed familiar.
A state does not need to think of itself as evil to repeat old mistakes. It only needs to believe that its version of power is cleaner than the versions before it.
Examples:
“We are not conquering them, we are protecting them.”
“They are not resisting us, they are resisting progress.”
“Our expansion is different because our values are better.”
“Criticism helps the enemy, so loyal people should stay quiet.”
“Past empires failed because they were greedy. We have a mission.”
“The rules apply to everyone, except when our security is involved.”
“Local people will thank us later.”
“We are bringing stability, even if stability requires violence.”
“This land was always meant to be connected to us.”
“Other powers dominate. We guide.”
“Our mistakes are temporary. Their mistakes prove who they are.”
“History warns everyone else, not us.”
A flattering story does not automatically make a state an empire. But when power keeps expanding and every cost is explained as noble, the story deserves suspicion.
Why is he being so stupid wanting to be outside when it's so hot? Is he wanting to melt his little kitty brain? He's always bugging us when we try to keep him in!
I was born in ’92 so I grew up playing with a snake eyes Gi Joe action figure, so I decided to add the toy element and make the Uzi a orange plastic gun with the red tip, instead of the dark traditional Uzi color.
My brother just told me that all his higher ups got laid off and everyone below him is being replaced by contractors.