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[–] [email protected] 59 points 3 months ago (3 children)

It's been near 15 years since I read it, but it's kind of a cautionary tale about tradition, superstition, and how easily humans succumb to their base impulses and can commit insane violence.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 3 months ago

Seems all too pertinent these days

[–] [email protected] 10 points 3 months ago

Ohhh. I remember now. Thank you.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 3 months ago

The qualifier base is exactly right. Like we use base as a pejorative, but it is what we are. That is our base state.

You know what itd take to drop us back to this level? I would say about a week without electricity. If you said to any given group of what, 50 people. Pick numbers out of a hat. The person with the dot dies, but the electricity comes back on. That would be enough.