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hmm; dystopia mixed with probably accurate thinkings:
From here: the one that I found most striking was #42:
Dunno about the world following, but America seems already there. It's not even the overcriminalisation that's the eeriest part, but how random it is in its ubiquity; effectively everyone who hasn't been to jail knows someone who has been to jail for things that they, also, have done. I know a young couple who have in the past, in entirely separate incidents, both been arrested for committing identical offences; one of them got clean away with it, and the other went to prison for 8 months. Early this year someone accidentally left a small amount of marijuana in our car, where it sat for two weeks without us noticing. Luck and white skin.
If he were American I'd guess he wasn't prophesying the rise of shopping and prison so much as the end of church; but I think he's Canadian, so the equation might be different. IDK.
From the Moonbat, years ago:
You'll spend a lot of time shopping online from your jail cell
Over-criminalization of the populace, paired with the triumph of shopping as a dominant cultural activity, will create a world where the two poles of society are shopping and jail.
Dunno about the world following, but America seems already there. It's not even the overcriminalisation that's the eeriest part, but how random it is in its ubiquity; effectively everyone who hasn't been to jail knows someone who has been to jail for things that they, also, have done. I know a young couple who have in the past, in entirely separate incidents, both been arrested for committing identical offences; one of them got clean away with it, and the other went to prison for 8 months. Early this year someone accidentally left a small amount of marijuana in our car, where it sat for two weeks without us noticing. Luck and white skin.
If he were American I'd guess he wasn't prophesying the rise of shopping and prison so much as the end of church; but I think he's Canadian, so the equation might be different. IDK.
From the Moonbat, years ago:
In both absolute and relative terms, the USA’s prison population is the highest on earth: one percent of its adult population is behind bars. [...] If you count the people under community supervision or on probation, the total rises to over 7 million, or 3.1% of the adult population. Black men who failed to complete high school in the US have a 60% chance of ending up in jail. I feel I need to say that again: 60% of unqualified black men go to prison. It’s beginning to look as if the state has stopped imprisoning individuals and started locking up a social class.