JFK awakens on a strange plane of land.
His head hurts.
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Wow. This really was fucked.
Why.
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You know I love you
I... This is just one of those things that I have to like.
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I like you
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D'aww, thanks.
Most sad anime I've ever read.
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I'm in tears.
You're welcome...Internet!
I roll out of bed, and what do I see? The first story ever posted in Sonic Anal Vore. My little baby group is growing up.
And now I'm totally going to have to read this at some point today.
I have to admit, when I first started reading this, I was expecting it to just be some vapid 'random' fic (which, don't get me wrong, I love). But this was so much more: an exploration of our purpose as humans, and our relationship with technological developments that, increasingly, have the power to destroy the world as we know it. Recently especially, as rhetoric between two nuclear-armed nations becomes ever more heated and belligerent, I think this line becomes even more profound:
It is especially significant that you used John F Kennedy for this. After all, he was President during the Cuban Missile Crisis, arguably the period during the 20th century when the world came closest to nuclear war; and now, some would say, it's happening again. When Luna tells him,
I feel like this is a condemnation of a violent society, baying for blood, one that too often shouts down peaceful voices in favour of a tribalist view of the world. In fact, the first thought I had when I read that sentence was of Coriolanus, after the mob hysteria whipped up by the tribunes results in the besieging of Rome: "You have made good work, / You and your apron-men; you that stood so much / Upon the voice of occupation and / The breath of garlic-eaters!"
Obviously the comparison is not wholly perfect, and Coriolanus most definitely is not a play that admonishes war. However, it definitely does condemn the 'mob mentality', and making dangerous decisions for the sake of popular opinion.
And, honestly, maybe I'm reading too deeply and finding something where there is nothing, but it feels almost... messianic to me. I don't know why, but compare for example, 1 Peter 3:18 - "For Christ also hath once suffered for sins, the just for the unjust, that he might bring us to God" (KJV). Obviously I'm not trying to suggest you think JFK literally was Jesus, but I feel like you're evoking that sort of language to suggest that he, similarly, took upon himself the mistakes of the masses, and ultimately suffered for it.
So once again we return to this central idea - that the people of the world are blindly leading us to ruin with their clamouring for war, and in attacking those who only wish for peace, are jeopardising the whole of humanity. We are close to "falling down, and dying" from "the alicorn's right butt cheek", so to speak. Of course, Luna might recognise that this tendency has existed throughout human history, when she says,
After all, what does she mean by "the overwhelming truth"? Is it the futility of war? The senselessness of violence, especially if we are, metaphorically, only specks on the back of a midnight alicorn? We have always known this, and yet we go on; war is part of human nature. Luna is right: our "kind is determination and grit"; it is "the human principle".
So what has changed? Technology. When Agamemnon's armies razed Troy, the death and destruction was but a fraction of what, today, can be caused in only a few minutes. Oppenheimer's now-famous words when he first saw a nuclear weapon detonated - "Now I am become Death, the destroyer of worlds" - summed up what awful power had been released.
To conclude, therefore, I feel this story is a double condemnation: firstly, of humanity's natural tendency to split and feud; and secondly, of the increasingly powerful weapons of mass destruction that today lie behind every word of hostile diplomacy. And yet also, there is something infectiously fatalistic about it all. Human nature has always been, and will always be, unchanged; and technological development continues, indefatigable, day after day after day. People cannot stop, nor have they any interest in doing so. As you put it -
As a man with an associates in history, and whose favorite president was JFK, I am offended. Fuck you B. I am questioning our friendship right now.
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My question for you
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How many did JFK grab by the pussy?
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A surprisingly deep story, that I certainly wasn't expecting from the title and chapter title. If it could get a bit of proofreading it would be really good, but the core is strong.