things that are horrifying which don't mean to be

My example for the day 17776: What Football Will Look Like in the Future

Maybe some of you read this closer to the time it came out, which was 2017. I only discovered it this morning when my daughter brought it to my attention. It's a hypertext meditation on an end state for human beings that involves them being eternally at play, and what, the story asks rhetorically, is a better game to play than American football?

Presentation-wise, the story is super cool--I enjoyed that aspect of it. But the...