So the town of Comfort had a sewer system, electricity, nightly DJed parties, free drugs.
How was all this financed? If it was a post money world, then it was "financed" but there must be something that provided the resources to keep everything going.
Or are we not supposed to think about that.
Good question that was dodged and unanswerable, they seemed to want us to focus on the fact there is the pressure to self-censor. But whenever such pressure arises in a society, there will always be a young, rebellious contingent who feel a mischievous urge to blaspheme, break all the rules, and say the 'unsayable'. They feel that insulting things that some hold dearly, the untouchables are now the funniest thing in the world. For them it promises fun, transgression, and a challenge to social norms they just don’t understand. Just as the kids of the 60s shocked their parents with promiscuity, long hair and rock’n’roll. For them, it’s simply a means to fluster the easily outraged. It’s typically juvenile but undeniably monstrous in fashion, revealing their true motivations: not like today's racism or sexism, but laughs.
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It's a liberal, socialist utopia where everything is free. Water, electricity, spaghetti, noodles and assorted foods, drugs, gasoline, etc., etc., etc. all just magically appear.
shareThere was one scene, where the girl is walking past some vendors and I swear I saw a vendor woman smile at her and then go back to counting dollar bills. I also wondered where the electricity came from, and later the sewer system. Even the water. I think if they'd showed a smidgen of something about how maybe the US did give some support now and then to 'The Bad Batch' it would have explained some questionable stuff. Maybe showing some gardens here and there would have helped. And the Ribisi character, who'd have given him food or anything else?
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