Hypothetical Overload

Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:00):
Hell listeners, it's time once again for another episode the
Hypothetical Situations Podcast, a show dedicated to almost anything hypothetically speaking,
that is. But more importantly, this show is dedicated to
you are listeners, and I can't thank you enough for

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stopping by for another episode. We've got a fun one
in store for you to day. We're going to go
through a hypothetical hodgepodge. That's right, you heard me in
no particular order. Number one. What if lying suddenly became

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impossible for every one? In an instant, something shifted in
the human brain. People crossed the globe, found their tongues
locking up mid deception. A mother trying to soothe her
child with It's going to be okay paused her throad

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constricting as the reality was grimmer, Politicians speeches unraveled live
on air, replaced by confessions or awkward silence. Courts descended

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to chaos. Truth poured out from the mouths of once
defines defendants. Social media became a wasteland of raw, unfiltered opinions.
People broke up, friendships, ended, businesses collapsed, all in a

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cascade of unvarnished honesty. Meanwhile, philosophers rejoiced until they too
had to face the truths they buried. The world didn't collapse,
but it cracked open. What emerged was either a utopia

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of authenticity or waste land without mercy. You choose. What
if you could press a button to end all suffering,
but half the world would forget you existed. Well, that's
an easy one, cause half the world doesn't know that

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I exist. To begin with, you wake up one morning
to find a silver box on your doorstep. One button,
one sentence, end all suffering and a cost. With trembling fingers,

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you read the fine print. Poverty, war, disease gone in
an instant, but in exchange, every one you love would
never remember your name. You become a ghost in the
world you saved. After days of deliberation you pressed. The

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world awakens to global peace, no hunger, no pain, no conflict.
But when you call your mother, she hangs obed, says
wrong number. Your friends walk by you like a stranger,

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even photos of you vanish. You spend the rest of
your life and world where joy is abundant except for you,
the forgotten savior, alone but fulfilled. What if humans were
born with an expiration date tattooed on their wrists. Every

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child is born with a glowing number etched onto their wrist.
It counts down in years, days, hours. Society shifts, insurance, education,
even love becomes calculated. People with long timers are seen

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as investments. Those with short ones live fast, unscreened lives,
or succumb to despair. You're born with twenty eight years.
At eighteen, you fall in love with someone marked for eighty.

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Every moment you shares a contrast your urgency their patience. Together,
you try to rewrite faith. Scientists develop a time exchanges,
letting people trade years. Black markets erupt the rich by decades,

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the poor sell time for family. Survival. In the end
is your final seconds take away. Your partner holds you close.
Whispering gave me more life than all my years ever could.

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What if every choice you made had to be approved
by a jury of strangers. You wake up and notice
a blinking green circle hovering over your head. A new law,
passed without public knowledge, connects everyone to the collective Decision
System c DS. Now every decision, big or small, is

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voted on by a randomly selected group of twelve strangers
watching you from afar. You try to use cereal rejected.
Where your blue shirt that's approved? Ask someone out rejected
with comments about compatibility. At first, it's chaos, but soon

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people start catering their lives to public approval. Some become
masters at gaming the jury, while others spiral under the
way of judgment. One day, you apply for a job
and the jury denies you without explanation, so you'll apply
again and again. Finally you realize you've stopped living for yourself,

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started existing as a reality show intestine in your own life.
What if emotions could be turned on and off like
a light switch. The tech arrived quietly. Neural toggles and
planted at birth allowed people to disable emotion and will

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heartbreak off, Anxiety gone, grief muted, society transformed. Soldiers fought
wars with cold precision. Emergency rooms ran without panic. Breakups
were simple transactions, but love, art, passion disappeared, to creativity plummeted.

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Parents disconnected from their children. The world became quiet. You
a painter, resist the change. You struggle to sell your
work in a world that feels nothing. Then a blackout
hits the city. Emotional switches reset. Suddenly, a wave of

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suppressed emotion erupts, tears, joy, laughter, rage, all flood back.
You watch strangers sob and sing in the streets. You
pick up a brush. The world is raw again, and

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you've never been more alive. What if you were sent
back to nineteen twelve with a smartphone but no charger.
Lightning cracks of the sky, and you wake up gasping
in the fog of nineteen twelve London. In your pocket

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is your smartphone, one hundred percent battery, thousands of photos, maps,
and data. You try to show people future innovations, but
they think you're mad. The camera stuns them. Music blaring
from speakers makes you a spectacle. You tempt to warn
about the Titanic, but you're dismissed. The charge slips to

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fifty percent, then thirty percent. Desperately, you try to recreate
a charger. You barter knowledge to electricians, reverse engineer copper coils,
but times too short. At five percent, you record a
message to the future. The screen dims black. You're stuck,

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just another out of place figure with a dead magic
brick in your hand, a head full of secrets. The
world isn't ready for. Unfortunately, that's all the time that
we've got for this episode of The Hypothetical Situation podcasts
ADDS a show dedicated to anything hypothetically speaking, but most

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certainly you are listeners, and I can't thank you enough.
We're stopping by for another episode. Until next time,