High Life - Section C
Aug 21, 2021
In general, I tend to overthink things, and one of the things I've been overthinking about this week, is whether or not to flag this episode as mature. I mean it features a weird alien drug and weird alien drug use, but at the same time nobody would be inspired to try the same kind of hit from an earthly alternative puffer fish would they? And besides, even on the University of Life it is a legal high and so presumably safe ....?
So perhaps I'm OK leaving the rating as it is, thus attracting a legion of readers of all ages and backgrounds rather than the few gnarly, shadow-eyed users of this site who crave the dark side of life. Maybe no one will notice the slightly mature theme? Perhaps for once, the fact that nobody is reading this is an actual benefit ... but there I go again, overthinking everything!
Incidentally, not long after I created 'High Life', legal highs such as those supplied by my helium vending acquaintance (see last week's notes) were banned in Britain, making my story completely irrelevant (it was meant as a sort of a satire).
So, relevant or irrelevant, mature or immature, controversial or anodyne, I shall try not to overthink this any more, instead I will switch of my mind, relax and float upstream, not being able to float in mid-air due to the lack of weird alien floating fish.
Enjoy the episode and remember, don't do drugs and stay in school, unless that is you are too old to do so, having passed exams and whatnot.
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The overall tone of the stories is satirical, poking fun, jibes and a big alien tongue at various ‘unfair’ institutions such as unfeeling bureaucracies, as well as examining the difficulties faced by the underdog, unglamorous, ordinary pedestrian universal creature who has to put up with the unfairness.
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