me when some guy rolls into my DMs proclaiming that Hitler was actually an occult satanist controlled by rothschild zionists and all I have to do is watch this 4 hour video in an obscure telegram channel to see how
They broke his bones, gouged his eyes out, cut out his tongue and castrated him. He died of a heart attack after being set on fire and dragged himself 50 meters across the floor.
>house attacked by armed men
>his girlfriend and baby were home with him
>he grabs a sword to protect them
yeah actually I am angry about this but not for the reason you think
Pitch for a future scifi dystopia. The world is seemingly very advanced, rich, prosperous and happy. Technology is woven into every facet of their lives and everyone has AI agents to help them with even the smallest tasks. Life is good, but almost no one, even the smartest, knows exactly how it all works.
Every once in a while however, a catastrophic systems failure happens, threatening everything. Disaster is always narrowly averted though by a mysterious group of engineers that operate mostly out of site but sweep in during times of great need.
The engineers have an almost mythical status in society and operate more like wizards and demigods, and their methods are nearly inscrutable to the general population. Our hero aspires to be one of them. After years of hard work, he is accepted to their school. On day one, they strip him of his phone, his ai agents, all his technology. He is taken to a remote monastery with no wifi, no ai, no agents, no technology more sophisticated than a chalk slate. The first class has nothing more complicated than a sand pit where they write equations in the sand using a stick. Only after years of working only with pure abstract math do they allow him to use an abacus or a slide rule, which are limited to upper classmen.
This is the way it has been for generations. This is the only way to ensure that people are actually learning and not just being guided by their technology.
"So the President wants the Ayatollah dead, but he doesn't want to do it himself. He tells a General, who doesn't want to do it himself, so he gives the order to an officer, who tells another soldier to do it, and if you even want to go more granular, the soldier sends a drone."