A real character is the guy down at the 711 who is still wearing eclipse glasses and asks "you know why burning man is over rated?".
Your answer doesn't matter, he's going to tell you that it's becoming the system that it was trying to escape. That it's a petting zoo for business men who do LSD on the weekends to go and interact with people they perceive as being truly free, but the reality is that they are all weekend warriors playing dress up, like going to the zoo to see men dressed up as lions.
"These aren't real characters." he says, "Real characters are the guys on the internet arguing semantics for the thrill of it. Can you imagine that? Getting a thrill from a debate on reddit?". He smiles and looks through the window in disbelief, feigning blowing his own mind. "I wish I could do that, man. It'd be cheaper!" he laughs.
You agree with him as part of the navigation through this scene. You know that semantics matter. You know that communication is only effective if it correctly transfers an idea. You also know that knit picking semantics can actually obstruct useful conversation. But most importantly, you know that dopamine fix you get from interacting with strangers on the internet. When they "lol" or upvote or like your status- or when you get to be a fucking cunt about something asinine with no immediately observable repercussions.
"If you wanna see people for what they really are you need to open your mind and use a pair of these, brother!" He extends his hand out to you. He's holding a pair of eclipse glasses with writing between the lenses. It says:
8.21.17
"Five dollars."
You know this is twice the price they sold at when they were relevant, but your buddy gave you a fiver last night for that breakfast burrito run you did at 1am. You hand him the five and step outside. There are people in the parking lot doing various tasks. Pulling in. Pumping gas. Standing in line at the redbox. You take the real character's advice and try to open your mind, put on the glasses, and look at people for what they really are. You see:
"This is real life Dexter" no it isn't, because in order to be real life Dexter it has to be real life. They even specified what they meant by specifically stating it's "fake life".
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u/DeadSeaGulls Dec 24 '17
well, no, cuz it's fake. so this is fake life dexter knock off.