Here’s an idea: a world far in the future where everything is run by robots, and to keep humans out of the picture robots have anesthetized us and rewired our brains so that we are in a constant intense orgy of bliss, like sex or heroin times a hundred, totally unaware of anything else. The feeling of pleasure is constantly jacked up so that we never get used to it. It is also augmented with simulations (such as actual sex orgies or parties) so that we don’t get bored. Further, this is done against our will, and one of the modifications that they make is to our memories so we remember it as if we made the decision. Therefore we percieve of ourselves as willing participants.
There is no pain and suffering any longer, obviously. The robots keep us in this catatonic state until all of us eventually die.
[This is the best I could come up with right now. It’s not meant to be a realistic scenario, it’s just meant to be weird]
Here’s an idea: a world far in the future where everything is run by robots, and to keep humans out of the picture robots have anesthetized us and rewired our brains so that we are in a constant intense orgy of bliss, like sex or heroin times a hundred, totally unaware of anything else. The feeling of pleasure is constantly jacked up so that we never get used to it. It is also augmented with simulations (such as actual sex orgies or parties) so that we don’t get bored. Further, this is done against our will, and one of the modifications that they make is to our memories so we remember it as if we made the decision. Therefore we percieve of ourselves as willing participants.
There is no pain and suffering any longer, obviously. The robots keep us in this catatonic state until all of us eventually die.
[This is the best I could come up with right now. It’s not meant to be a realistic scenario, it’s just meant to be weird]