You've almost got it, Caitlin. You've identified most of the unbelievable things that could manifest in your fanciful dystopia:
"The government is so profoundly corrupt that the corporations who manufacture military weaponry are inseparably intertwined with the decision-making apparatus of its foreign policy establishment and are permitted to actively lobby for more wars so that more of its expensive weaponry will be used.... It's the same with environmental and economic policies."
But you've left out the most unbelievable portion of your fantasy: the complete takeover of the medical and "scientific" establishments and 90% of trained physicians by the very same forces of corporate greed you pretend run the military, environmental and economic policies.
Nor are your suggested endings sufficiently unbelievable. Sure, "the most obvious ending would be to kill the whole world off within a few books by nuclear war or ecological disaster..." is difficult to believe, but not supremely so. At least you have the humility to recognize that you too may have a blind spot for "...something equally terrible..."
May I propose a resolution even less believable than war, economic or environmental destruction? I propose the geno-suicide of the most advanced countries in the world through takeover and manipulation of the medical and public health establishment! Such thoroughly corrupt institutions could frighten over half the citizens into not just accepting, but mandating inoculation with vaccines against a bio-weapon with an infection fatality rate barely twice that of the flu, with even that rate enhanced by iatrogenic injury from drugs and devices mandated by bureaucracies captured by evil forces. And the vaccine itself would be a second, more effective bio-weapon that trains human cells themselves to produce the most pathogenic portion of the first bio-weapon, causing infertility and years of premature death from heart attacks, strokes, autoimmune disease and the resurgence of latent diseases previously held in check by immune systems damaged by the vaccine.
Don't you agree, Caitlin, that I propose an ending so bizarre, so contrary to your own faith in the medical establishment that you couldn't think of or propose it yourself?
You've almost got it, Caitlin. You've identified most of the unbelievable things that could manifest in your fanciful dystopia:
"The government is so profoundly corrupt that the corporations who manufacture military weaponry are inseparably intertwined with the decision-making apparatus of its foreign policy establishment and are permitted to actively lobby for more wars so that more of its expensive weaponry will be used.... It's the same with environmental and economic policies."
But you've left out the most unbelievable portion of your fantasy: the complete takeover of the medical and "scientific" establishments and 90% of trained physicians by the very same forces of corporate greed you pretend run the military, environmental and economic policies.
Nor are your suggested endings sufficiently unbelievable. Sure, "the most obvious ending would be to kill the whole world off within a few books by nuclear war or ecological disaster..." is difficult to believe, but not supremely so. At least you have the humility to recognize that you too may have a blind spot for "...something equally terrible..."
May I propose a resolution even less believable than war, economic or environmental destruction? I propose the geno-suicide of the most advanced countries in the world through takeover and manipulation of the medical and public health establishment! Such thoroughly corrupt institutions could frighten over half the citizens into not just accepting, but mandating inoculation with vaccines against a bio-weapon with an infection fatality rate barely twice that of the flu, with even that rate enhanced by iatrogenic injury from drugs and devices mandated by bureaucracies captured by evil forces. And the vaccine itself would be a second, more effective bio-weapon that trains human cells themselves to produce the most pathogenic portion of the first bio-weapon, causing infertility and years of premature death from heart attacks, strokes, autoimmune disease and the resurgence of latent diseases previously held in check by immune systems damaged by the vaccine.
Don't you agree, Caitlin, that I propose an ending so bizarre, so contrary to your own faith in the medical establishment that you couldn't think of or propose it yourself?