Powderhorn@beehaw.org to Chat@beehaw.orgEnglish · 2 months agoNow that V for Vendetta and Idiocracy have essentially become documentaries, what other movies do you place in that camp?message-squaremessage-square35linkfedilinkarrow-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?Powderhorn@beehaw.org to Chat@beehaw.orgEnglish · 2 months agomessage-square35linkfedilinkfile-text
minus-squareknightly the Sneptaur@pawb.sociallinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up0·edit-22 months 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-up0·2 months 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-up0·2 months 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-up0·2 months agoI remember the kids participating more like in group brainwashing sessions, not being in isolation with some device in hand
minus-squarePowderhorn@beehaw.orgOPlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·2 months agoSay, blindly reciting the Pledge of Allegiance that brings some god into the equation?
minus-squareptu@lemm.eelinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·2 months 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