self-annihilated

Not only the human race self-annihilated, but on top of it the future of humanity on that ship are all obese people who can't even walk, laying on their anti-gravity bed-chairs, plugged into the Internet or television permanently, to the extent that they barely notice the world around them, all that publicity choking their little spaceship.

Humankind's future: social and political Utopia or Idiocracy?

Many novelists there are who know their art better than Charlotte Bronte, but she, like Byron -- and there are more points of resemblance between them than might at first be supposed -- is imperishable because she speaks under overwhelming pressure, self-annihilated, we may say, while the spirit breathes through her.

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