"I wonder why all these societal commentaries feel like society"
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Just for those who have remarked that they live in Brazil. It's the movie Brazil that this meme is referring to.
I wonder if there's a general vibe to these specific societal commentaries...
Needs to fit in Handmaids Tale here somewhere too.
Oh, don't be so dramatic. We're nowhere near that yet. We're just rapidly spiraling toward it like a disoriented skydiver tangled in the lines of their reserve chute.
Don't forget that we are actually skydiving in tandem with someone who either doesn't believe in gravity, is trying to hit the ground on purpose, or both.
That person is actively stabbing at the harness with a rusty pair of shears while accusing you of sabotaging the jump. Sometimes they end up stabbing themselves, but usually they just end up stabbing you through the harness instead.
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Plunging toward oblivion while happily screaming, "10,000' so far so good, 5,000' so far so good..."
Ah yes, the four cornerstones of dystopian fiction: 1984, Brave New World, Idiocracy, and Hunger Games
Should have gone with Social, Political, Economical and (Post-)Apocalyptical.
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Only sometimes? How do you make it NOT feel like that?
Recreational drugs.
This diagram would make the same amount of sense if you randomized the titles in it.
Maybe they're already random.
Nah, I can see it.
- 1984: they’re rewriting history / propagandizing
- Idiocracy: the morons are in charge
- Hunger Games: they’re pitting us against each other
- Brave New World: they’re distracting us with entertainment
The others seem to fall pretty well into those categories.
They're also rewriting history in Idiocracy (It's actually a key story element at the end).
"They're pitting us against each other" is one of the most important aspects in 1984.
And "They're distracting us with entertainment" is literally at the core of Hunger Games.
So it still works beautifully
now explain brazil there, how is it om the 1984 and not hunger games
Are you thinking of the film or the country?
The film has a large overbearing surveillance state / bureaucracy as the chief antagonist, it’s about the suppression of art and loss of human connection. Do you see it differently?
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Yeah it's not really even a joke it's just for the clapter. If someone said to you "it's like we're living in a dystopian future" it would be the same level of humor as this post.
The only thing putting it in a four-way venn diagram added was to explain to the reader that the person doesn't know how venn diagrams work.
I was wondering how Lord of the Flies fit in the Idiocracy circle.
Kids are dumb
FFS just put on the damn sunglasses.
No we need to have an unnecessary 10 minute fistfight instead of just trying it for myself.
And in so doing, we'll have the greatest first fight ever committed to film.
Those films were supposed to be a warning .... NOT A GUIDE!
Torment Nexus! Torment Nexus!
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I'm in Brazil and I feel this.
I stared at this for a good couple of minutes trying to figure out why the new Captain America movie was in the diagram
Media is inspired by reality.
Throws in "Flight of the Navigator" to skip forward eight years.
Evangelion will let you skip ahead 14 years...
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Love to see Soylent Green on there. Both in a metaphorically and quickly approaching literal sense.
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very weak in the subgroupings. There could be 2 axises of dystopia. 1. Autocratic vs chaotic 2. some attempt to mean well vs dystopia by design.
axes*
I would throw in Snow Crash as well
No, I'm not 'HERE', I'm in Brazil
Lol not even close lmao 🤣
The “you are here” is where libertarians think they and 0,0 are on a political compass meme
Terry Gilliam's Brazil is a masterpiece. He denies it, but anyone that has seen the movie and really knew Brazil in the eighties knows that movie is absolutely about the country.
Come to Brasil
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