dystopia

A four-panel comic. A boxy robot and a red-haired woman argue. The robot asks why she's scared of robots; she says they're not scared of robots in particular but of some technological dystopia resulting from their existence. The robot retorts that humans have dystopias all day long, all created socially with no robots required. It presses on: the catastrophe is inside her, and tech worries her because she's afraid it'll make her more efficient at her own pursuits, which she knows are fundamentally selfish and evil. The robot says, 'Fix yourself first before you blame us, human!' The woman, looking flustered, snaps back, 'Stop saying true things or I will conflate my guilt with righteous anger!' In the votey aftercomic, the woman's speech bubble looms over a single robot in an empty room: 'You know what, we're putting all of you in cages.'