TV: Pollsters are reporting record low turnout this election day, with yet more people bemoaning the continued necessity to actually drag your fucking carcass to a polling station to vote...

1: Well, you can see their point. We´re wired up to the ass, but we have to, you know, turn up and pull levers and stuff. It´s just archaic.

2: It´s tradition.

1: "Tradition": one of those words conservative people use as a shortcut to thinking.

2: Bullshit. It´s the word we use with respect to protect old things that work. Don´t act like ignorance of your culture is an excuse for being a prick.

1: Oh, fuck you. What, we´re not allowed to continue growing up? That´s like telling cripples it´s traditional to spend the rest of their lifes on crutches, rather than getting a neural regen package.

2: What it is, is breaking a classic statue and replacing it with a big Ebola Cola floater ad.

Uma discussão durante uma festa, Transmetropolitan 24, 08.99 (RSF)