Remember Black Mirror and West World? I feel like we were in a communal high-tech trance for half a decade. The pandemic broke the spell and since then I can't really enjoy distopian high-tech shows anymore. I don't know.. maybe it's just me. But reality now feels different than back then.
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I remember those partially meaning I def saw at least one episode. When we live in dystopian times … felt. Hugs 🫂
I feel the same way. I can't enjoy dystopian media anymore. I used to love it.
One part of that is that I realized that it was conditioning me into accepting dystopia when it actually came. A lot of movies and shows just hit different now.
Fact jumped the shark and became stranger than fiction
Nah I am the same exact way, I have noticed a considerable change in my taste the last few years especially
#nostr broke the spell .. hollywood movies and Netflix shows seem so outdated !
well, I think the Hollywood Elites stopped making them because they discovered a new kind of dystopian reality show to make.
that was always the next step of the obsession with ritualistic dystopian plotlines where innocent people have to compete for their lives in some twisted universe where a few sickos rule over everyone.
it only makes sense, because if they can't really do it in real life, then they need to recreate their fantasies somehow.
there's a new kind of horror show pornography and it's the games regimes play with people's lives.
the rewards are really just "congrats! you survived the torture!"
Same thing with black mirror. Real life is more black mirror than black mirror ever was
Maybe it was the sight of an empty Boston that fuck me up... Early in the pandemic, on a tuesday, literally no one in the streets, for my whole commute. Not even the full shutdown to hunt the Boston bomber was that empty. 🤷
I went to Las Vegas and it was surreal. The casinos were all lit up with nobody in them and the convention center in The Venetian was a massive empty space. The streets were a ghost town like a some dystopian movie.
1984 -> Demolition Man -> 2024
The world feels different past pandemic. As if it's a new firmware version.
I'm not tired of it, it just needs to get more interesting (than reality).
Kinda what killed South Park. How does one do satire when satire is mainstream life?
Or, if you want something dystopian, at least YOU recognize it for you experienced its creation and lived in the before times. Kids, these days, have this as the only reality they've ever known. I miss when dystopian visions were "A Clockwork Orange".
I dont enjoy any mainstream shows anymore, woke bullshit all of them. When I need some entertainment I watch some anime with real heroism, uplifting adventures.
The globalist cult believes they are required, by their cultic rules, to tell us what they're planning to do. These dystopian shows, movies, etc. are "pre-programming" the populace. Pay close attention. You can see a lot of this that has either happened, is happening, or is planned to happen.
Not just you
There was a *lot* of dystopia, for a long time. Not just near future dystopias (V for Vendetta, Revolution, V) and far future dystopias (Alien, Terminator, The Matrix), but also young adult dystopias (Hunger Games, Maze Runner, The Giver), fantasy dystopias (Dark City, City of Lost Children), zombie armageddons (Walking Dead, etc), disaster porn (2012, The Day After Tomorrow).
David Graeber wrote an article positing that this was caused by a failure of imagination. Writers were finding it easier to envision the end of the world than the end of capitalism.
they're documentaries now, no sci-fi
I find some distopian movies like Minority Report, They Live, Logan's Run and Soylent Green enjoyable you finish them in the same afternoon get some insight and that's it. I watched Black Mirror's first episode and it's just plain gross, never watched again.
I never enjoyed it much because I am afraid it will become reality.
Now, it’s becoming reality and I enjoy them even less…
We pretty much just watch Seinfeld.
It now feels too real to be enjoyable.