History Quotes / CrapsaccharineWorld

->''[[FridgeHorror Think about how many laws have to not exist in that universe]] for this show to happen. It's apparently legal for a person or corporation to imprison a person, as long as you feed him. It's legal to film and record someone without his knowledge. It's legal to defraud a person out of literally every possible thing he could have in his life, from a real marriage to a real career. If it can be done to Truman, it can be done to anyone, including you. It's as much an "anything goes" society as ''Film/TheRoadWarrior.

->''Think about how many laws have to not exist in that universe for this show to happen. It's apparently legal for a person or corporation to imprison a person, as long as you feed him. It's legal to film and record someone without his knowledge. It's legal to defraud a person out of literally every possible thing he could have in his life, from a real marriage to a real career. If it can be done to Truman, it can be done to anyone, including you. It's as much an "anything goes" society as ''Film/TheRoadWarrior.

Housing: No-one is homeless]]. People without homes live in [[BedlamHouse institutions]], where they are subject to [[KillThePoor conditioning and experiments]].\\

->The old Baron had decreed a meridian-to-meridian rest from labors, and effort had been spent in the family city of Harko to create the illusion of gaiety: banners flew from buildings, new paint had been splashed on the walls along Court Way. But off the main way, Count Fenring and his lady noted the rubbish heaps, the scabrous brown walls reflected in the dark puddles of the streets, and the furtive scurrying of the people.''

-->'''''VideoGame/SunlessSkies'''''

Agriculture: Food is mass-produced so that there is plenty for everyone. Special additives in the food guarantee obedience to the government]].\\

Government: The government wants to make sure the citizens are [[HappinessIsMandatory happy]].

!!!RealLife

Yes, the segregated toilets, how they shine like the sun

-->-- '''''''VideoGame/LaMulana'''''

->'''Tog:''' Pay no heed to it, Peri. This place confounds the senses, masks its dark intent with gaudy colours and bright lights. The plague that turned my world on its head is here, corrupting everything.

!!WebOrignal

->''"No TV, [[DorkAge movies suck]],''\\
''I'm here with my gal, ''\\
''Shake your hands, kick around''\\
''[[ImpracticallyFancyOutfit Wear a suit to breakfast!''\\
''Underwear that laces up]],''\\
''[[BoyishShortHair all girls have a guy's haircut]]!''\\
''[[ThePennyfarthingEffect Crank your car to make it start]],''\\
''[[ThePlague you will die of measles]]!"''
-->-- ''WesternAnimation/FamilyGuy'', on [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6qXTw2gX5NA the Roaring Twenties]]

->''"If this is paradise''\\
''I wish I had a lawnmower"''

->''"Plastic palace people\\

Their memories just stare"''

->''"The world that so enchanted me was rotten to the core"''

->''"When I first seen Columbia, that sky was the brightest, bluest sky that ever was. Seemed like Heaven. Then your eyes adjusted to the light and you see that sea of white faces looking back at'cha."''

->'''Rung:''' You're saying the more outwardly peaceable and well-adjusted a society, the greater the likelihood-\\
'''Rewind:''' Of it having a sinister underbelly. Yup.\\
'''Skids:''' Even Lovetopia, off Rigel VII?\\
'''Rewind:''' Lovetopia? Please. The Lovetopian elite were selling the lower classes to the Macerators. The 'magic ingredient' in every pint of Yum Yum Juice? An impoverished family of six.\\
'''Skids:''' Cuddlex, in the Benevolon Sector?\\
'''Rewind:''' A wonderful place for a vacation—if you ignore the fact that they breed haemoslaves to fight in service to the Antigod. And don't even get me started on the living hell that is Giggleopolis.
-->--''ComicBook/TransformersMoreThanMeetsTheEye''

->''"A paradise deep in the fog. Clear the fog, [[SchmuckBait and you will be surrounded by more happiness]]. Head for the Tree of Eden with the fruit of paradise in hand."''
-->-- '''A stone tablet in Eden''', ''VideoGame/LaMulana'' (remake)

->''"[[spoiler:[[WelcomeToHell Welcome to the paradise of the eternally lost]]. In times past, this place was called '''Eden'''. Now it is an accursed site of war, where vengeful spirits are lost, wandering the paths of life. Those who enter Eden, do not make light of this place]]."''
-->-- '''The same stone tablet [[spoiler:in the Gate of Illusion]]''', ''VideoGame/LaMulana'' (remake)

->''I've seen the future, you know what it is!? It's a [[NoSexAllowed 47-year-old virgin]] sitting around in his beige pajamas, drinking [[{{Veganopia}} a banana-broccoli shake]], singing "I'm an Oscar Meyer Wiener"! You live up top, you live [[BigBad Cocteau]]'s way: [[TheEvilsOfFreeWill what he wants, when he wants, how he wants]]! The alternative? Come [[AbsurdlySpaciousSewer down here]], [[SadisticChoice maybe starve to death]].''
-->-- '''Edgar Friendly''', ''Film/DemolitionMan''

->''"Ilium is just [[WretchedHive Omega]] with expensive shoes."''

-> ''"Slap some rainbows everywhere, and boom! The world's still fucked up, but boy is it CUUUUUTE!!!"''

->'''Ken:''' What did you find out?\\
'''Tommy:''' That there are more criminals in this town than in prison.
-->-- ''VideoGame/GrandTheftAutoViceCity''

->Behind the [[SceneryPorn palace-lined boulevards]] and [[Music/JohannSebastianBach Bach]] [[SugarWiki/AwesomeMusic fugues]], however, boiled a witch's cauldron of secret societies, occultism and debauchery. The upper class of England applauded the easy verses of Pope and the mannered wit of Fielding, then adjourned to revel in drunken lust at the [[DenOfIniquity Hellfire Clubs]]. In France, Madame de Montespan commissioned Black Masses with [[WouldHurtAChild infant sacrifices]] to draw the King's love, then to kill him. Few remember that [[UsefulNotes/IsaacNewton the arch-scientist Newton]] spent more time studying alchemy than gravity. [[ReligionOfEvil The Followers of Set]] flourished in "Enlightened" Europe.
-->--''TabletopGame/VampireTheMasquerade - Clanbook: Followers of Set (revised)''

->Now let's stroll through the heavens like aristomocrats\\
To the sound of [[TheKlan white supremacists in fancy blue hats]]\\
Yes, [[DeliberateValuesDissonance the segregated toilets]], how they shine like the sun\\
Ain't freedom grand? Ain't we got fun?
-->--'''Music/BrentalFloss,''' ''The VideoGame/BioshockInfinite Song''

->''9: Dystopia''
->Medicine: [[WeWillHavePerfectHealthInTheFuture Disease has been eliminated]], and people live to be 120 in perfect health. [[DeconstructedTrope As a result]], [[OverpopulationCrisis your world is overpopulated and resources are scarce]].
->Agriculture: Food is mass-produced so that there is plenty for everyone. [[TamperingWithFoodAndDrink Special additives in the food]] [[{{Brainwashed}} guarantee obedience to the government]].
->Employment: Everyone is guaranteed a job that pays a living wage, so that people are trapped in nightmarish jobs that they can't leave.
->Housing: [[FalseReassurance No-one is homeless]]. People without homes live in [[HellholePrison institutions]], where they are subject to [[PlayingWithSyringes conditioning and experiments]].
->Education: Citizens may study any available information. [[OrwellianEditor The government provides the information]] that citizens are authorized to see, and [[BigBrotherIsWatching records who is reading it]].
->Law: All issues are decided by fair courts. Mistakes, of course, are never made. [[KangarooCourt How could they be?]]
->Government: [[MetaphoricallyTrue The government wants to make sure]] the citizens are [[HappinessIsMandatory happy]].
-->--''Civilization,'' by Vylar Kaftan [[note]] Every single sentence here is almost identical to the sentences under the utopia entry - except for the government title, which is ''completely'' identical to the utopia entry[[/note]]

->'''Peri:''' Tog, are you sure we're going the right way? It [[BazaarOfTheBizarre looks like we took a wrong turn]] east of Literature/AliBabaAndTheFortyThieves.
->'''Tog:''' Pay no heed to it, Peri. [[EldritchLocation This place]] confounds the senses, masks its dark intent with gaudy colours and bright lights. The [[RealityIsOutToLunch plague that turned my world on its head]] is here, corrupting everything.
-->--''Audioplay/BigFinishDoctorWho: [[Recap/BigFinishDoctorWho056AxisOfInsanity Axis Of Insanity]]''

->Travellers reported that Mousillon was the most wondrous city in [[TheGoodKingdom Bretonnia]], more splendid even that the capital Couronne. The city seemed charmed, its people happy and content. In summer, the [[AsceticAesthetic white walls of the buildings]] sparkled in the sun, and in winter, when the rest of the land shivered under the snow, soft breezes kept the streets and houses warm.
->But like a gilded goblet made by a shoddy craftsman, the glittering surface of Mousillon hid a rotten interior. The port's prosperity was not due to the hard work and honest of its citizens, but was fuelled by the sorcery of [[EvilSorcerer Malfleur]] and the corrupt dealings of [[VillainWithGoodPublicity Maldred]]. Though in daytime, the city streets bustled with all the usual activity of a busy port, the inhabitants of Mousillon had the curious habit of [[FascistsBedTime never leaving their homes after dark]]. At night, the only things that moved through the dark streets of the city were packs of rats and the crews of the night-calling ships. Wrapped in cloaks, hoods pulled over their faces, these silent strangers moved mysterious bundles of cargo backwards and forwards between the dockside warehouses and their sleek black-sailed ships...
-->--''TabletopGame/{{Warhammer}}: Bretonnia Army Book (5th Edition)''

->"You think that [The Other World] is a dream come true, but you're wrong."
-->-- '''The Cat''', ''WesternAnimation/{{Coraline}}''

->"Sunnyside is a place of ruin and despair, ruled by an [[KillerTeddyBear evil bear]] who smells of strawberries."
-->-- '''Mr. Pricklepants''', ''WesternAnimation/{{Toy Story 3}}''

->I prepared to enter [[EldritchLocation his realm]], expecting to encounter guardians who would seek to tear into me with talons and fangs. At the least I assumed I would find bastions to bar my progress. I found none. The land before me was open and pristine. Its fields shimmered like gold and its forests bore fruits of sapphires and emeralds. I took a step into this place and [[LotusEaterMachine instantly knew I was lost just as surely as if I had been impaled on a debtor’s spike]].
-->--'''Cardinal Wogalta,''' on Slaanesh's realm, ''TabletopGame/BlackCrusade: The Tome Of Excess''

->[[PathOfInspiration The cult]] compound looks like paradise, at least compared to [[AfterTheEnd the rest of the world]]. It’s well kept; the people are [[AffablyEvil clean, friendly, and organized]], and there’s even fresh food. It’s also secure, with fences, gatehouses, and armed guards on duty at all times...
-->--"No Room In Hell - Post-Apocalypse," ''TabletopGame/TheEndOfTheWorld: Zombie Apocalypse''

->It is most likely [[StepfordSmiler the smiles]]. Maybe. Carnivore expressions, syrupy and gleaming, faultless mirrors of the Couturier's dazzling grin. Or maybe it is the second-rate souvenirs cobbled from haberdashery and children's nightmares. The arsenic aftertaste of the candyfloss, the wine-wild quality of the local perfumes. Could be anything. Could just be your insecurities, the error of your existence.
->Whatever the case, [[BigBrotherIsWatching the Lanes continue their watch]].
->Politely, of course.
-->--Something is amiss at [[PleasurePlanet Worlebury-juxta-Mare]], ''VideoGame/SunlessSkies''

->The [[BigBad old Baron]] had decreed a meridian-to-meridian rest from labors, and effort had been spent in the family city of Harko to create the illusion of gaiety: banners flew from buildings, new paint had been splashed on the walls along Court Way. But off the main way, Count Fenring and his lady noted the rubbish heaps, the scabrous brown walls reflected in the dark puddles of the streets, and the furtive scurrying of the people.
->In the Baron's blue-walled keep, there was fearful perfection, but the Count and his lady saw the price being paid – guards everywhere and weapons with that special sheen that told a trained eye they were in regular use. There were checkpoints for routine passage from area to area even within the keep. The servants revealed their military training in the way they walked, in the set of their shoulders ... [[BigBrotherIsWatching in the way their eyes watched and watched and watched]].
-->--''Literature/{{Dune}}''

->''"What's going on in this candy coated heart of darkness?!"''
-->-- ''WesternAnimation/WreckItRalph'', referring to the world of the ''Sugar Rush'' video game

->Warm glow with a golden shine\\
Come to rest under the virile vine\\
Dark flow from the oldest shrines\\
Blight and blood under the wealth and wine
-->-- '''Music/MiracleOfSound''' on Toussaint, "[[VideoGame/TheWitcher3 Blood and Wine]]"

->''Our story is about a town. A small town. And the people who live in the town. From a distance, it presents itself like so many other small towns all over the world. Safe. Decent. Innocent. Get closer, though, and you start seeing the shadows underneath...''
-->--'''Jughead Jones''', ''Series/{{Riverdale}}''

->''"None are more hopelessly enslaved than those who falsely believe they are free."''

->''"RELENTLESSLY LIGHT-HEARTED."''

->''"But how can we enjoy the bright sunshine when we know the terror that lurks beneath the game? It's not fooling us anymore. We have seen what it becomes. YOU ARE ALL DEMONS! You are all horrible demons and I hate you, walking monsters! Go! Expire! Away, away from us! You wretched demons! You won't take me! Stop your cheery lies! STOP YOUR CHEERY LIES!"''
-->-- '''LetsPlay/DeceasedCrab''' upon witnessing what lies beyond [[spoiler:''VideoGame/{{Eversion}}'']]'s exterior...

->''"Think about how many laws have to not exist in that universe for [[Film/TheTrumanShow this show]] to happen. It's apparently legal for a person or corporation to imprison a person, as long as you feed him. It's legal to film and record someone without his knowledge. It's legal to defraud a person out of literally every possible thing he could have in his life, from a real marriage to a real career. If it can be done to Truman, it can be done to anyone, including you. It's as much an 'anything goes' society as ''Film/TheRoadWarrior''."''
-->-- '''''Website/{{Cracked}}''''' [[http://www.cracked.com/article_18691_the-7-most-ridiculous-movie-character-overreactions.html digresses]]

->''"In ''The Noonday Demon'', Andrew Solomon makes the point that depression sufferers see the world, their own circumstances and failings, more accurately than healthy people—positing thus that perhaps optimism is the defining characteristic of the human condition...[[TheNewTens Millennial]] advertising actively addresses and discards that we are facing ''The Sixth Extinction'', the one brought on by ourselves, in which the seeds of our own destruction were sown through our need for progress, as Western Civilization turned out to be nothing more than a march to annihilation, one towards which we have been hurtling for thousands of years--today is actually pretty great!\\\
Perhaps 'Pretty Great' itself performs Solomon’s point, pandering as it does to the millennial optimism of millions of young people who see not the world as it is but as it is on the selective reality of their Website/{{Facebook}} feeds--on what they see right now. Our doom is programmed in the optimism that is the defining characteristic of our human condition. Thus our doom is programmed in us. We were meant to be this way. [[InYourNatureToDestroyYourselves We were meant to end the world.]] Woo-hoo!"''
-->--'''[[http://www.theawl.com/2014/03/dont-be-sad-millennials-today-is-actually-pretty-great-youre-all-going-to-die Maya Gurantz]]''', "Don't Be Sad, Millennials: Today Is Actually Pretty Great! (P.S. You're All Going To Die)"

->''"I get a lot of people saying that because I used to be in UsefulNotes/{{Hawaii}} , I was so fortunate and that I'm stupid for moving to the mainland. Honestly? Hawaii is a real mixed bag - on one hand, you have the culture, constant flip-flop weather, rain everyday, [[SceneryPorn the most beautiful scenery in the Pacific]]. On the other? It's [[CrackIsCheaper expensive as hell]], [[AdamSmithHatesYourGuts since the price of almost everything is jacked up]]. You know the stereotype of hawaiians liking that disgusting canned meat? It's because that's the only thing that won't deplete your entire paycheck. If you're one of those geeks who people beat up on a lot? It's utterly pilau. For one, you can NOT keep a secret in Hawai'i. The reason nobody gossips, even in Honolulu is because it'll reach the person you talked about in days if not hours. Get in [[DustbinSchool a high school that has a reputation for being a borderline reform school]]? Guess what - everyone KNOWS it, and that says a LOT about your character. Hawai'i is also your time zone. If I say, lived in [[FlyoverCountry Indiana]], I could log onto the web and talk with friends who understand me. In Hawai'i? Everyone in the mainland is in bed during peak logon times - Everyone in Guam, New Zealand, or Australia is still at work, so who's online? The people who just beat you up at school. Better hope the people on the other islands don't have friends with the people you got in a spat with over lunch. It's utter heaven if you are friends with the locals... but if you're a social exile, you have less places to hide on an island than you do in the nice big mainland. It's a gilded cage for an introverted geeky person who people love to pick on for no good reason. [[ArsonMurderAndJaywalking Also the bugs are terrible.]]"''
-->--A blogger on why UsefulNotes/{{Hawaii}} can be this.

->''"All utopias are depressing because they leave no room for chance, for difference, for the 'miscelaneous.' Everything has been set in order and order reigns. Behind every utopia is a great taxonomic design: a place for each thing and each thing in its place."''
-->--'''Georges Perec'''

->''Our story is about a town. A small town. And the people who live in the town. From a distance, it presents itself like so many other small towns all over the world. Safe. Decent. Innocent. Get closer, though, and you start seeing the shadows underneath...''
-->--'''Jughead Jones''', ''Series/{{Riverdale}}''

-->-- ''Disney/WreckItRalph'', referring to the world of the ''Sugar Rush'' video game

->What's going on in this candy-coated heart of darkness?
-->- ''WreckItRalph,'' on the "[[ShowWithinAShow Sugar Rush]]" world.

-->''ComicBook/TransformersMoreThanMeetsTheEye''

-->''Webcomic/DanAndMabsFurryAdventures''

-->-- '''WesternAnimation/FamilyGuy''', on [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6qXTw2gX5NA the Roaring Twenties]]

-->-- '''WesternAnimation/FamilyGuy'', on [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6qXTw2gX5NA the Roaring Twenties]]

[[ThePlague you will die of measles]]!"''

->''"I get a lot of people saying that because I used to be in UsefulNotes/{{Hawaii}} , I was so fortunate and that I'm stupid for moving to the mainland. Honestly? Hawaii is a real mixed bag - on one hand, you have the culture, constant flip-flop weather, rain everyday, [[SceneryPorn the most beautiful scenery in the Pacific]]. On the other? It's [[CrackIsCheaper expensive as hell]], [[AdamSmithHatesYourGuts since the price of almost everything is jacked up]]. You know the stereotype of hawaiians liking that disgusting canned meat? It's because that's the only thing that won't deplete your entire paycheck. If you're one of those geeks who people beat up on a lot? It's utterly pilau. For one, you can NOT keep a secret in Hawai'i. The reason nobody gossips, even in Honolulu is because it'll reach the person you talked about in days if not hours. Get in a high school that has a reputation for being a borderline reform school? Guess what - everyone KNOWS it, and that says a LOT about your character. Hawai'i is also your time zone. If I say, lived in [[FlyoverCountry Indiana]], I could log onto the web and talk with friends who understand me. In Hawai'i? Everyone in the mainland is in bed during peak logon times - Everyone in Guam, New Zealand, or Australia is still at work, so who's online? The people who just beat you up at school. Better hope the people on the other islands don't have friends with the people you got in a spat with over lunch. It's utter heaven if you are friends with the locals... but if you're a social exile, you have less places to hide on an island than you do in the nice big mainland. It's a gilded cage for an introverted geeky person who people love to pick on for no good reason. [[ArsonMurderAndJaywalking Also the bugs are terrible.]]"''

-->--Something is amiss at [[PleasureWorld Worlebury-juxta-Mare]], ''VideoGame/SunlessSkies''

-->-- '''TalkingHeads''', "(Nothing But) Flowers"

->Government: [[MetaphoricallyTrue The government wants to make sure the citizens are happy]].

->"Sunnyside is a place of ruin and despair, ruled by an [KillerTeddyBear evil bear] who smells of strawberries."
-->-- '''Mr. Pricklepants''', ''FilmsAnimation/{{Toy Story 3}}