[28-Mar-2016] [Sayonara, Zetsubou-Sensei] Living In The Real World

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Title: Living In The Real World
Prompt: 28-Mar-2016 "fantasy is a necessary ingredient in living"
Based on: Sayonara, Zetsubou-Sensei
Characters: Nozomu, Chie
Type: Humor?; 100 words
Warnings: Depressing adult themes.

"I'm concerned that you're not preparing your home-room students for living in the real world," Chie said to Nozomu. "Instead of teaching them how to cope with modern life, you're encouraging them to retreat into their various psychoses."

"Oh?" said Nozomu. "Authoritarianism and Orwellian surveillance is on the rise; both skilled and unskilled jobs are being automated at an ever increasing rate; and personal relationships are difficult to form and impossible to maintain. Isn't it better to retreat into fantasy than to struggle with those soul-crushing problems?"

"I prefer your usual wacky suicidal mania to this realistic cynicism," Chie noted.