This post is for all of those people who will soon turn 30. You know who you are. To you I say - don't worry. Our society still regards people in our age bracket to have many, many years of back-breaking labour left in us. We can still trudge on. You see, it could be worse. We could be living in the dangerous futuristic world of Logan's Run.
As the plot summary on the Internet Movie Database says, in this classic film released in 1976:
"An idyllic sci-fi future has one major drawback - life must end at 30".
The other drawback is that everyone wears jumpsuits and togas.
Anyway, the basic idea is that due to overpopulation, once you reach 30, that's it. It's the glue factory for you. And I don't mean that you get to tour the factory, I mean you are killed. Surprisingly, some people, like Mr Logan, don't like the idea of life ending before they can take up lawn bowls or get senior citizen discounts, and make a run for it. Yes, that's where the title came from - keep up.
So all I'm saying is that it could be worse. You could have seen this film, and wasted a good 120 minutes on it.
(Actually, it could have been even worse - in the novel that the film was based on, the death age was 21. No giant key for you. I haven't read the book, but I'm pretty sure many of the people in it opted for a quick and painless death rather than listen to their mates give an embarrassing 21st speech.)
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