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

[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?

[potentite]

Yeah its certainly interesting. Its a similar situation where information was changed but this time it couldnt have REALLY changed as you said!
Otherwise wed be fucked.
And oh gosh off the top of my head the whos behind blue eyes and green eyes by coldplay!
They have this odd... static? I cant hear where the word should be.
And then theres movies! Blue velvet? Nope. The green mile? Nada. I cant really make it out.
So what i gather from this is... they couldnt truly change it? Maybe?

[notyourutopian]

So they didn't change the lyrics, they just
Muted them.

That's almost sad, thinking about it. This isn't a world-change, it's a select-all, remove

[potentite]

Haha yes indeed!
Instead of a copy paste.
But i wonder what that means? What determines the way they change the world?

[notyourutopian]

It could mean they are still testing the limits of whatever it is they use to do this.
We do seem like guinea pigs after all.

[potentite]

Good hypothesis yeah.
If theyre trying to get all the kinks out of the system then that means attempting different things.
Though im flummoxed as to what their goal could be.

[notyourutopian]

Hmm.
So, they can rewrite reality.
But they aren't good at it yet.

In theory I suppose the long-term goal would be something really big
and really complicated.

That they absolutely have to get right.

[potentite]

Huh. When you put it that way... it makes sense.
I wonder if they consider the chocobo replacement a success?
If i were a shadowy corporation altering reality i wouldnt be pleased. It didnt change the information but rather just copypasted.
And in this case too it didnt TRULY destroy the colours.

[notyourutopian]

Hmm.
Maybe that's what they want though.
I mean...
I can think of a few ways copy-pasting something out of the universe could be handy.

[potentite]

Oh really?
What are you thinking?

[notyourutopian]

Imagine if you could do a find-remove on
say
Guns.
Or drugs.
Or AIDS.