It should be said that this TV series is full of humanistic feelings compared to other TV series. He is thinking about the alienation of human beings under high-tech and modern media. In the second episode, modern people become people who ride bicycles in the gym every day. Only by exercising can they earn experience points, and other activities, such as eating, will consume these points. There is only one situation where people can get points-watching pornographic programs-and these are necessary daily. If you don't watch it, not only will you not get points, you will also be deducted experience points.
This is like a metaphor-modern people are working hard for their lives, and the monthly salary is those points, and people can live by consuming these salaries. And what you don’t want to see but you have to watch is, of course, advertisements!
The success of this TV series is that it brings the latest technological products, especially those that surround us and have even become part of our lives, into a context of reflection, reminding us of these rapid developments. In the current trend, what we gain and what we lose is nothing more than an illusion of consumerism, and we are powerless in this illusion.
In a consumer society, everything can be consumed. Entertainment can be consumed, resistance to entertainment can also be consumed, consumption can be consumed, and accusations against consumption can also be consumed. In other words, everything in the world can be sold or bought, and everything can become part of the transaction.
This situation is not uncommon in reality. A recent example is Han, a man who became famous for resisting education, and later became a celebrity who resisted the anti-antibody system. This process of resistance has become a good deal. He himself has made a lot of profit and is not only famous, More tangible banknotes. This is an egg laid by consumerism.
In fact, there is no need to say more about this situation. Western Marxism has always spared no effort to criticize this reality, but the voice is too small to change the logic of the world.
Consumerism is just a representation of capitalism. In fact, the essence of this world is that capital controls everything. It is precisely because of capital control that the alienation of people can continue unremittingly.
We see that, officially because of the intervention of capital, the Internet, now the mobile Internet, has become a new world. Capital propaganda claims that the Internet and mobile Internet will change the world, but in reality, they are nothing but a new world for capital to obtain excess profits, and the others are appendages to this purpose.
Our lives seem to have changed, but in fact we are just acting as a bargaining chip for the creation of capital. We are still consuming our experience points and points. What we get is just a new program, an alienation of a brand new person.
Marx's theory is still very shocking, but unfortunately he is too optimistic, thinking that it can change the world. He underestimated the power of capital. This world is still controlled by capital, and their power is getting stronger and stronger. Unless the earth is destroyed, nothing will change much.
Mr. Bourdieu once had a book called About Television. The core of this book is the same as this TV series, which has a fierce critique of modern media. But just like this TV series is a TV series, Bourdieu's book was originally a lecture on TV. It is said that when it was broadcast, it also had excellent ratings.
All meaning is probably dissolved in this way. Since there are countless items for consumption in the world, the potency and blood of human beings have been eliminated in the name of consumption. There are no things other than consumption in the world, but it is divided into high-level consumption, low-level consumption, or A consumption and B consumption.
Let's euthanize to death, anyway... Anyway, death is also a kind of entertainment.
(This article is nonsense. There are bound to be countless mistakes. Don't worry about it. If you write it in ten minutes, it's just consumption anyway.)
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