Pete Hahnloser@beehaw.org to Chat@beehaw.orgEnglish · 12 days agoNow that V for Vendetta and Idiocracy have essentially become documentaries, what other movies do you place in that camp?message-squaremessage-square36linkfedilinkarrow-up127arrow-down10file-text
arrow-up127arrow-down1message-squareNow that V for Vendetta and Idiocracy have essentially become documentaries, what other movies do you place in that camp?Pete Hahnloser@beehaw.org to Chat@beehaw.orgEnglish · 12 days agomessage-square36linkfedilinkfile-text
minus-squareknightly the Sneptaur@pawb.sociallinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up0·edit-212 days agoLiterally nobody mentioned Aldous Huxley’s “Brave New World”? We’ve already got the chemically suppressed culture of distraction and the strictly stratified social hierarchy.
minus-squareptu@lemm.eelinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up0·12 days agoIt has some great sociological observations but the parts about family and births is still ways away so I wouldn’t count it in here.
minus-squareknightly the Sneptaur@pawb.sociallinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up0·12 days agoGiven that most kids see their phones more than their parents, the only thing we’re missing is growing fetuses in bottles.
minus-squareptu@lemm.eelinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up0·12 days agoI remember the kids participating more like in group brainwashing sessions, not being in isolation with some device in hand
minus-squarePete Hahnloser@beehaw.orgOPlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·11 days agoSay, blindly reciting the Pledge of Allegiance that brings some god into the equation?
minus-squareptu@lemm.eelinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·10 days agoThat’s a better analogy, no phones involved
Literally nobody mentioned Aldous Huxley’s “Brave New World”?
We’ve already got the chemically suppressed culture of distraction and the strictly stratified social hierarchy.
It has some great sociological observations but the parts about family and births is still ways away so I wouldn’t count it in here.
Given that most kids see their phones more than their parents, the only thing we’re missing is growing fetuses in bottles.
I remember the kids participating more like in group brainwashing sessions, not being in isolation with some device in hand
Say, blindly reciting the Pledge of Allegiance that brings some god into the equation?
That’s a better analogy, no phones involved