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MyDarkestTimeline01 @ani.social

2d ago

It feels like that sometimes.

Just for those who have remarked that they live in Brazil. It's the movie Brazil that this meme is referring to.

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Flavour country. 😎

Please leave The Matrix out of this. Seriously, do not compare any of that to The Matrix. It is a trans-allegory. If anything, not enough people know that. So many fucking Red Pill douchebags who would renounce the franchise once they learned that.

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.

Love to see Soylent Green on there. Both in a metaphorically and quickly approaching literal sense.
- Idk it doesn't look like we'll run out of food and the population bomb turned out to be a dud. Maybe the food chain will collapse in the ecocrisis, but Capital will find a way to produce food more energy-intensively to compensate.
  It's a classic, but it reflects the anxieties of the time for sure.
  
  I'm not convinced that tech and humanity can create enough food sources to make up for losses that climate change is going to create. I think the damage is going to occur much more quickly than any replacement food chain could be established.

"I wonder why all these societal commentaries feel like society"
- I wonder if there's a general vibe to these specific societal commentaries...

Ah yes, the four cornerstones of dystopian fiction: 1984, Brave New World, Idiocracy, and Hunger Games
- Where's weekend at Bernie's
  
  Or Zootopia!
- Should have gone with Social, Political, Economical and (Post-)Apocalyptical.
  
  I had a go at Authoritarian, Scarcity, Chaotic, and Plentiful

Needs to fit in Handmaids Tale here somewhere too.

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.

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.
  
  I like to think it wasn't even tandem, they entered the picture Point Break style.
  We were skydiving. They just jumped out a plane after us.
- Plunging toward oblivion while happily screaming, "10,000' so far so good, 5,000' so far so good..."

Only sometimes? How do you make it NOT feel like that?
- Recreational drugs.
  
  Can't spell drugs without U
  
  Recreating reality since, like, forever

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.
  
  now explain brazil there, how is it om the 1984 and not hunger games
- I was wondering how Lord of the Flies fit in the Idiocracy circle.
  
  Kids are dumb
- 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.

Those films were supposed to be a warning .... NOT A GUIDE!
- Torment Nexus! Torment Nexus!
- the matrix looks so cool though...
  
  The hookup to the Matrix in this reality is located a lot lower in the body than at the base of the neck

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.

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*

Lol not even close lmao 🤣

Throws in "Flight of the Navigator" to skip forward eight years.
- Evangelion will let you skip ahead 14 years...
- I wish. At least I didn't fail geography.

No, I'm not 'HERE', I'm in Brazil

I would throw in Snow Crash as well

Come to Brasil

The “you are here” is where libertarians think they and 0,0 are on a political compass meme

Some of these feel mutually exclusive...

uses cloud flair 😄

Brazil is infinitely better than the US. Cope, Murica.
- Brazil is a movie.
  
  I know, I also know the movie has nothing to do with the US. And that placing this in the list is purely pejorative towards the country Brazil.

I hate 1984 on so many levels...

I'm in the Man in the High Castle universe,
but also feel like I'm a Belter in The Expanse
but also, feels like the Faction in the Travelers took over and are fucking up shit, which explains the Mandella effect
and personally, I feel like my family is fake and they are a bunch of people trying to mess with me (Truman Show), but also sprinkle a bit of Inception in there, since this feels so surreal
Okay, my conclusion: Y'all are fake, its just my imagination. Nothing exists. "I think, therefore I am", I'm the only one here.
Wait. THIS IS THE BAD PLACE!
The "politicians" are just demons trying to torture me. 😱

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