The problem is, I can’t think of anything worse. There’s something particularly terrible about mass industrial slavery. Maybe some passing atrocitologist can help.
I’m not quite an atrocitologist so I have no idea whether some of these things I can think of were actually ever put into practice, but I can think of lots of things worse. I can also guarantee you with 90% confidence that there’s a lot of manga (especially doujinshi) out there that do picture things you’d consider much worse, especially when you delve into the darker circles. Some japanese artists have literally become world-renowned ‘experts’ on the topic of fictional mass atrocity.
I’m not comfortable discussing specific examples without a wall of spoiler prevention features requiring the viewer to pass a mental fortitude test to view the content. I might have mentioned this before, but I’ve once had an acquaintance bend down and vomit on the spot upon recounting one of my more horrible nightmares. I try to avoid dishing out such mental damage on unprepared individuals nowadays.
To hear things so bad they make unprepared listeners spontaneously vomit, not to hear things worse than slavery. There are plenty of those, they just tended not to catch on.
I’m not quite an atrocitologist so I have no idea whether some of these things I can think of were actually ever put into practice, but I can think of lots of things worse. I can also guarantee you with 90% confidence that there’s a lot of manga (especially doujinshi) out there that do picture things you’d consider much worse, especially when you delve into the darker circles. Some japanese artists have literally become world-renowned ‘experts’ on the topic of fictional mass atrocity.
I’m not comfortable discussing specific examples without a wall of spoiler prevention features requiring the viewer to pass a mental fortitude test to view the content. I might have mentioned this before, but I’ve once had an acquaintance bend down and vomit on the spot upon recounting one of my more horrible nightmares. I try to avoid dishing out such mental damage on unprepared individuals nowadays.
Now I’m all curious.
To hear things so bad they make unprepared listeners spontaneously vomit, not to hear things worse than slavery. There are plenty of those, they just tended not to catch on.
Touché. I meant something that was likely to have actually happened on a fairly large scale.