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Originally Posted by FlareKnight
Lot of questions and they are all the further away from tracking down this mysterious facility.
I find it completely believable that people would be that stupid and wasteful. It's the apocalypse. Living it up in the moment is completely on brand for humanity.
Plus...if those things aren't going to last forever, why not use them up before they go to waste? What else are they going to use them for? Going for scenic drives in a world with human eating monsters in it? I'm sure there are technically decent ways to use them. But...keeping people's spirits up isn't necessarily all that bad either.
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You perfectly capture why this is so realistic to me - it’s exactly what I imagine people in a big city doing in this situation. Anything to relieve the merciless tedium of survival in a post-technological world where everyone remembers what it used to be like. That’s Ishiguro’s genius as a writer.