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Those are ideas its actually interested in playing with and probing.
The virus is just the backdrop.
For them, the appeal ofDystopiaandUtopiaisnt just that they love the books.
Then off the team will scatter, following Mr. Rabbit even farther down the rabbit hole.
Utopias portrayal of conspiracy obsession works in a way its viral themes do not.
show, and in the age of Q its not hard to see the appeal.
The other, more sideways bit of relevance inUtopiais the brutal individualism of it all.
Even for the survivors,Utopias obsession with brutality means that basically everyone gets tortured at some point.
Eyes get scooped out with spoons and fingernails are yanked out one by one.
ButUtopiadoes not share that feeling.Utopiais an all ten fingers kind of show.
Later, someone fills an oven mitt with broken glass and forces someone else to put on the mitt.
Because inUtopia, all the conspiracies are true.
Mr. Rabbitisout to get them, and theirUtopiaobsession will actually save the world.
Its a fantasy I once had a lot more willingness to live inside.
Now it mostly makes me sad.
