"Spin Down" from "Black Mirror". After watching the first episode of the third season, I must first sigh three times. The good British drama style has become the American drama style. It is like seeing Mr. Bean become Jim Carrey, which is a bit maladaptive. To get back to the topic, the first episode of the third season seems to talk about a more extreme world: a society where any social behavior can be graded against each other. The higher the score, the higher the social treatment you enjoy, and the score represents your social status. In order to get a high score, the heroine embarked on a crazy journey. The only thing that scares me in the whole show is the unrestrained exercise of power (you can give uncontrolled bad reviews to strangers just because they are useless to themselves, just because the other party has a low score). This is what social workers call being labeled.
A lot of reviews are talking about technology controlling people or something. Here I would like to express my point of view: removing the technological outer core and extreme expressions of this episode, I think this episode can see how people can adapt to society.
The social attributes of human beings allow us to face different societies and their affiliated groups from birth, as small as parents, relatives, partners, and classmates. Big enough to face schools, units, and society. Each group (circle) has its own evaluation and evaluation system. Without group identification, it will be excluded and lose its social identity in this group. So we started to be rated and rated by others since we were young. Just like the heroine in the play said, "We are all the same, we have to do this, this is how the world works".
"I have to play the numbers game before I get there". Yes, this is also the line of the heroine in the play. What it implies is that a person who wants to break away from the original group and enter a new group has to deal with the new norms of adapting to the new group. This is people seeking higher life, value recognition, and personal improvement. must experience. The progress of human beings and society is driven by people's enterprising spirit.
The norms and evaluation systems of a group are not formulated by the top elites in the group, but are formed by long-term collision and running-in within the group. Therefore, the original high-scoring elites who drive trucks in the play will quickly lose points and be abandoned by the group once they give up the norms recognized by the group. Is there any possibility of not being evaluated? My answer is as long as you are still alive, because people have needs, and as long as they have needs, they will intersect with society. Just like the heroine of the show, in order to get on the bus, she must be recognized by the cosplay girl. Once the recognition is lost, she will be kicked out of the car.
I wrote so much, just to express that being evaluated and regulated is not such a terrible and crazy thing. That makes you a better version of yourself. The only thing to watch out for is not to be labelled, good or bad, that's too dangerous.
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