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Possible reference to Kurt Vonnegut Jr.'s "{{w|Harrison Bergeron}}."
 
Possible reference to Kurt Vonnegut Jr.'s "{{w|Harrison Bergeron}}."
  
The joke is that people's different experiences shape how they perceive the world in that the people who live in this world would perceive the joke as funny, while people in our world would not get it. This is the idea of umwelt mentioned at the top of the context where different individuals perceive the world differently.
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Possibly a veiled criticism of Facebook. This could be slightly rewritten as: "This comic takes place in a dystopian future where the government is afraid of dissent, so it tracks everyone at all times, and some people privately doubt the government, but not enough to stop submitting information to Facebook. But that dystopian future is now."
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It's also possible that people's different experiences shape how they perceive the world in that the people who live in this world would perceive the joke as funny, while people in our world would not get it. This the idea of umwelt mentioned in the top of the context where different individuals perceive the world differently.
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Referrer: Facebook
  
 
Refer: Facebook
 
Refer: Facebook

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