Netflix has a new hit movie: Birdbox. The idea is a simple one: there are things in the world that, if clearly seen, are so radically discomfiting that those who see them are driven to suicide. So everyone puts on a blindfold.
It’s a smashing success. I wonder why?
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I watched about 30 mins of it and found it somewhat intriguing , however, what led me to turn it off – in protest – was because there is a character played by John Malkovich, who is clearly intended to portray an intolerant Trump supporter. I think he even says some variation of ‘make America great again’ at an inappropriate time and situation such that I assessed it as being written by Democrats for Democrats, hence turning it off, in protest. Perhaps a bit narrow-minded of me and I think given the continued buzz the show is receiving, I will resume watching.
There is very little that you’ll find anywhere in media or popular culture that isn’t “written for Democrats by Democrats”, I’m afraid. Our media and communication channels are occupied territory.
So the ‘red pill’ equals suicide and the ‘blue pill’ is not only calm but blind calm?
Ha! No, the red pill is only fatal to a malignant memetic parasite. (In truth, it’s exactly the opposite of suicide.)
The problem is that people infected by the parasite will protect it at all costs. That’s how it survives, and what makes it so dangerous.
It sounds interesting but I’ve sworn off watching anything made after 2005. It’s kind of an arbitrary date but it seems to be when they decided it was okay to put gay-porn in everything. And actually anything made in the last couple of years they’ve decided it’s mandatory. I’m done. Getting lots of reading in. And I’d highly recommend Social and Cultural Dynamics by Pitirim Sorokin. I’m reading the abridged one volume version from 1957, not the 4 volume version from 1937
As T.S. Eliot said, man cannot bear too much reality.
“The most merciful thing in the world, I think, is the inability of the human mind to correlate all its contents.”