A stray rant from an old Neil Gaiman fan

Carmel 2022-10-17 21:15:54

After watching the first season, I feel that the new god is missing an extremely powerful and irresistible "god of consumption" - we are heading towards Huxley's world (although there is also an Orwellian hell at the same time). Can break): This god makes the public worship and worship with devotion, but the more you dedicate, the more empty and boring you get. It enjoys and consumes a lot of the sacrifices of your money, time, and life, but it will only bring you into the ocean of brand, pleasure, and low-level excitement, submerge you in vulgarity and mediocrity, and create all kinds of figurative or abstract Consumables are as inextricable as the cycle of consuming them with this income, and even a life is wasted and meaningless. If you don't have a sense of reality, look at the buy buy buy and all kinds of hype marketing around you, the crazy chasing of electronic product fans and the constant "manufacturing demand" of manufacturers, all kinds of anti-intellectual live web variety shows and film and television. The drama is even more and more fake VR technology... just the tip of the iceberg.

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Chatting in the Q group, some people say that the old god has fallen

In fact, some people in the old god group have a good life, so it cannot be generalized.

Or because it was repackaged by a new god (personally, I think this implies that the new ideology in human evolution coerces, drives, and changes the old ideology) (such as Vulkan and Sheba)

Or because its own religion has been enduring (like Jesus)

Or because the theme represented by itself does not change with the changes of the times (such as Annecy)

Or being brought up for borrowing some elements from a rising star in the gods (like East)

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good title

The two distinct elements of primitive worship and industrial age are perfectly combined everywhere (such as Jewish nine candlesticks and DIN connectors) to express the emerging gods and let people appreciate the dazzling and irresistible trend of the times.

(I like that neon cowboy very much, I don’t know if it can appear in the later episodes)

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