Maybe the world is fine...

[notyourutopian]

Eleanor Lamb shared a photo. 6/6 near Recollé

So I've been thinking about this a lot, and I don't think blue and green are actually gone. I mean, we can't see them anymore, but I'm wondering if it's more like colorblindness than them actually changing the whole world. Because, think about it. If blue were actually gone, they sky wouldn't be gray. The sky would be red. That's how light and our atmosphere work. We see it as blue because of refracted red light. I remember reading about it forever ago in a science textbook. And if green were gone, we'd already be seeing the smaller plants starting to die, and they aren't, right? So they clearly still are...photosynthesizing. So. I'm not sure the world changed. I think this time it was us. And I can't decide if that's better or worse.

Comments

[true_noir]

The plants aren't dead at the flower shop... well, not unless we cut them. So, I think you have a good point. They are messing with our perceptions, so that makes sense. It's us.

I think it's re-assuring. Knowing that the blue is still there, though it doesn't explain the things that are still full of color like my cloak.

[notyourutopian]

Your cloak is still blue?
The one they sent you?

[potentite]

The problem is its another case like the chocobos and horses.
Everyone ive asked have no clue what blue or green could be.
I looked up songs and movies that should reference them and they dont anymore.
Unlike the chocobo and horses situation though nothing replaced blue and green.
Which frankly im grateful. I dont need to try figuring out a colour i never knew existed.

[notyourutopian]

Yeah.
I mean, it doesn't really help us know what's going on.
But it might give us an idea of the edge of what they can do? Kind of.

Wait, what songs did you look up?

[catsudon]

yes so the point comes back to: congratulations
you were changed forcibly without warning
and the majority of the world around you does not notice and does not care
so this time sure its the way our eyes work
but its been how our memory works the whole freaking time
overwriting what used to be true to replace it with a new truth
alternative facts that just become
it

[notyourutopian]

Pretty much.
But I suppose it's like...they remember always being colorblind and we don't.
Who knows what THAT means though

I don't think they are changing what is true though.
Blue is still blue.
They're just...
Trying to paint over it.

[viktorymaker]

I agree, these colors are not gone. The Retrospec logo is still blue, and some people still own blue and green objects, so we still retain our ability to recognize them in specific instances

[notyourutopian]

So it has to be our perception.
But only we realize it's been altered.
Everyone else thinks it's normal.

Which makes it all even stranger.

[b0mbshell]

Kazuhira Miller I was suspecting it was color-blindness myself. Like they're controlling what we're allowed to see.

[notyourutopian]

Eleanor Lamb I suppose if they can control what we remember.
Then seeing isn't that much harder.

[godcards]

The colors are still gone, regardless of "how." Even if you're right, what are you expecting by posting this? A pat on the back? Retrospec is still in control of the situation.

[notyourutopian]

Well you're a friendly one, aren't you.

I was just thinking out loud, mostly.
And some people were still panicking about the colors.
I thought this might help a little.

[commandertoolbelt]

well they couldn't be GONE gone anyway if the retrospec logo (and janet's eyes i guess?) are still blue could they?
so it's like they really did just slap on a filter?

my question is still how they did it though

[notyourutopian]

I guess that's a matter of perspective.
If they're 'gone' from everywhere but one place, they're still basically gone...
But I am thinking filter, yeah.
Or some kind of selective gene engineering being done actively on us.

Doesn't that sound fun

[trivialization]

Forget plants, they'd survive on red light anyway. The proof is in front of all of us; we're discussing this on RGB screens that don't just display in red.

[notyourutopian]

Yes but plants are green because they are photosynthesizing.
In theory, if they aren't green, they are not eating.

I hadn't thought about the screen thing.
Though, I guess it's more like Red-grey-grey now.

[tokencanadian]

It's a very interesting theory anyway.
I do have to wonder just how everything is happening so... smoothly.

[notyourutopian]

Not the word I'd use.
Someone just told me they looked up music with green and blue in them
And there are just gaps in the songs where the words should be

[me_matey]

makes no difference. still the same dude i gotta punch.

[notyourutopian]

I suppose if that helps you sleep at night, then
Congratulations.

[seeker]

they aren't gone. i'm convinced of that.
the idea i have is that we're experiencing a selective masking, not removal, of those colors from certain areas.
otherwise you'd be right — plants wouldn't be able to photosynthesize.
some items wouldn't still retain blue and green, either.

[notyourutopian]

A selective mask.

So

We've been photoshopped

[wordcarvings]

Thank you for that thought, really. It's comforting, I think. That it at least might still be there. It may mean that there is something wrong with all of us, but I honestly prefer that to the colors not existing any more at all.

[notyourutopian]

I honestly don't know which I prefer.
But if they're still there, it means maybe we can fix it.
If we can figure out what happened.

[scarlet_devil]

Émilie Écarlate Well, I guess that makes some sense. Certainly more plausible.

[notyourutopian]

Eleanor Lamb Right? Or at least, less intimidating.
Eleanor Lamb We can examine ourselves, after all.