The fundamental belief of these people is that they are the default, perfect form of humanity and that any variation is an intolerable abnormality that must be punished.

They'll be going after left-handedness before long.

It's the god of Pokémon.

It wants to know why you haven't caught them all.

Three words: "load-bearing coconut"

It is a bit overly reductive to say they have no idea, as they seem to be able to guess what actually is wrong, but the cost of trying to figure out which 1 should be a 0 is much more than an ad hoc adaptation.

My experience is that programmers want to rant about how their code makes no sense but somehow works anyway.

Damn, your version is better.

Also, "bourgeoisie" is the bourgeoisie of words. Every time I've tried to spell this word blind has been a disaster. Let the proles have some vowels too, my god.

I wrote this at three in the morning so you'll have to excuse the typos.

I think any essay I could come up with on the topic would boil down to "Your favorite story will not fix the human species."

Stories don't exist to teach. They can be useful tools for teaching, but that's not why they exist. Stories exist because humans are social creatures and we like hearing what other people are up to.

Also, I guess I am really good at reading German because this look a heck of a lot like English to me.