balajis
@balajis.eth
Even Oppenheimer and Barbie are in a sense nostalgic remakes. They harken back to a time when DC could ship the Manhattan Project and when children had innocent toys. Like Top Gun or the Marvel movies, they’re about a glorious fictionalized past. Contrast to Black Mirror’s depiction of a dystopic future…
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Siddharth Raval
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@abhishek1point0 SEE?! DYSTOPIC! I understand that humans have always had a dark side and the show just shows what they would do with creepier tech, but WHATEVER, it's still DYSTOPIC! It's about the vibes son!
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Abhishek Agarwal 📱
@abhishek1point0
Ofcourse, the vibes are there. But they don’t show the world is a fundamentally bad place because of that, but rather how a bad player can act. “Civilisation advances by increasing the scale of collapse we can trigger by not thinking about it.” (Dark Whitehead Criterion by @vgr)
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Abhishek Agarwal 📱
@abhishek1point0
https://www.ribbonfarm.com/2015/01/01/black-mirror-as-hell-is-other-people-futurism/
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Venkatesh Rao ☀️
@vgr
I forgot where I said this
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