I still think it's on track for Idiocracy.
this post was submitted on 17 Jan 2025
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Tbh it’s starting to look more like Altered Carbon, except the core tech is complete vaporware because eel-on-musk made it.
That, or CP2077.
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I still think Infinite Jest is in pole position:
- unqualified populist US president
- canada (and mexico?) subjugated to the US
- subsidised time (selling everything including the calendar to the highest bidder)
- catapulting garbage into giant superfund sites
edit: also I think we can be on track for both Infinite Jest and Idiocracy
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Society was only looking like Idiocracy during the 2000s. But soon as the world got turned upside down in the 2010s, the comparison grew more distant.
Are you sure about that? Look who just got elected president of the US again.
You also have that stupid movement where liberal women are withholding sex as a protest. Sounds an awful lot like the beginning of Idiocracy to me.
The forerunners to these trends were observable even back then, and also, history repeats itself. Check out HG Wells Time Machine from 1895 (not 1985, actually 1895), and Animal Farm by George Orwell in 1945, or even Plato's Allegory of the Cave, written around 380 BCE.
The closer we get to the future, the higher the resolution of the prediction - using our exact words & phrases like "social media" - but it is eerie how accurate those hundreds to thousands of years old works are as well.
It's Tommy Westphall's world. We're just living in it.
OMG yes! I’ve had moments in the last few months where I can see a portion of the show play out in something benign in the news. Though most dystopian stories seem to have something in common with what is transpiring right now in the real world just enough to think there are commonalities. Good call out!
It's all Patrick Duffy's dream, or that Canadian kid in a coma, or maybe the windfish
I dunno if my politics have changed or my recollection of the show is just hazy, but my first reaction reading the synopsis on IMDb is "Wait, Kiera was a cop?" These days I would certainly be rooting for the "terrorists". Maybe it was about her learning the truth? Methinks I need to rewatch.
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Her views change over time and also with what happens to her.
Too bad we don't have time-traveling Unabombers
I'm sure there's someone who could make an argument why Ted Kazinsky (did I spell that correctly?) is a timetraveller.
Kazinsky probably "killed himself" because he took a look at the world of 2023 and realized that no one listened to a single word he said.
"Killed himself" by Mark Zuck, that's it!
Did they release a second season?
There's 4 seasons...
Second Season?
There are 4 seasons!
Did you just come back from the past or something? 😅
Look I haven't been on netflix for some time due to their habit of canceling shows. That's where I saw it.
Not everyone pays that close attention.
It's on Prime now. Give it a watch.
Also on 🏴☠️Bay 😉