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You Know..

posted 11 years ago by strawberrymilkandgin
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in this movie they call it 'videodrome', (to cleanse north america of social derelicts who would watch the sort of filth advocated by civic tv)

in real life they call it 'the internet'

or at least that's what they've called it since about ten years after this movie came out.

evil right-wing conspiracy; people who would sit around jerking off and playing video games all the time would probably be less likely to meet a person of the opposite sex and reproduce.

(PLEASE, DON'T TAKE THAT PERSONALLY, I'M JUST SAYIN IS ALL*.)

among other things cronenberg predicted was the eventuality that people would become jaded by scripted entertainment and turn to, (ahem) REALITY TELEVISION to satisfy their visceral needs.

and when they get tired of hearing bleeped-out words and blurred-out images of kim kardashian and honey boo-boo, they get to go to the web and see just about any sick, depraved act they can imagine.

tv = reality & reality < tv.

*prove me wrong, kids, prove me wrong.

(spoiler)

[–] dialixii 10 years ago

Bravo! I could not agree more! O'Blivion said we would soon assume different names (twitter handles). The videos consume us all (you can't go anywhere without use of computers anymore). " The signal will ultimately create a new outgrowth of the human brain which will produce and control hallucination to the point that it will change human reality. After all there is nothing real outside our perception of reality is there?" (people don't know how to do the most basic things in life without googling it first).

We allow computers to tell us how to do things and let them follow us by a digital leash (GPS, X-Box Kinnect, Google Glasses). They even talk to us (Siri). How long can any of us stand it if we leave our smartphones at home?

I have more, but I have to go know. I think I am developing a rash on my stomach. :O