![]() ![]() Having arrived in a post-scarcity world, where even time is not scarce, humanity (particularly the American portion of it) now occupies itself with increasingly long, large-scale and absurd games of football. ![]() It envisions a world where the people who inhabit earth in the year 17776 are for the most part the same set of people who inhabit the earth now. ![]() But a certain amount of spoilers are inevitable from here on out.īasically, 17776 is a story about a world where people stopped dying, stopped aging (or, stopped aging involuntarily at least), stopped getting sick, and invented a way to prevent all accidental death and injury. I’ll try not to spoil too much, because the novelty and element of surprise are nice. Mostly, it just knows exactly what it is and follows through again and again. The fact that it’s so surprising and so totally different from anything else I’ve ever seen a major news/sports/culture publication do is only part of the appeal of this. This story of life in the inconceivably distant future is one of the most effortlessly, unassumingly funny, bittersweet and occasionally heartbreaking stories I’ve come across in a very long time. If you’d told me in January that one of the highlights of my pop culture year would be a story about football that came from SB Nation, I… would probably have believed you but also been very surprised. ![]()
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