After Netflix took over, "Black Mirror" released six episodes at a time, and fans of the show were a little overwhelmed with joy. Despite the change of owners, the original cast still allows the show to maintain its serious mind-opening style, satirizing various problems in the development of technology and modern society. It's still the same as before, one episode per story, one story per theme. The first episode, "Turning Down", confronts modern society, the alienation brought by social networks, the violence of big data, the cruelty of social stratification, and the more important question "Do we have the right to do wrong?"
Social Networking: The meaning of our life is to post travel selfies and food?
Since WeChat has become a part of everyone's life, as Bozeman emphasized in "Entertainment to Death", the form of the medium affects the content of the information carried. WeChat has made the previous logs of Qzone and Renren a distant past. Few people will express their thoughts and thoughts in long texts, accompanied by carefully selected pictures and music, as before. Most people will no longer post more than 100 words, so pictures become the most important carrier. The best way to show your life in pictures may be selfies. In order to appear to be a person who loves life and has a rich life, most people choose to post various photos of their travels, photos of their own food, photos of their children... In short, they want to appear that they are not only living a good life, It also makes people feel that they are a good person who loves life and likes all the good things in life. Sometimes I really feel a little disgusted, but I casually mention it to the people around me, and I get more ridicule from everyone, saying that I can't eat grapes and that the grapes are sour. Indeed, because it is too politically correct to post about travel, food, fitness, children, and happiness. Living well, being good, the wonderful may be all the values we can pursue. People are posting, which means they are doing well, and you actually want to post, but there is nothing to post. But thinking about this question carefully, why do we sometimes dislike politically correct things? I think we can sometimes jump out of it. A good life is the rut of traveling and eating delicious food. We will think, is this the real good life? Isn't this kind of life just a little bit taller with the hedonism that has been criticized before? Even if we don’t mention the debate on this ancient proposition, all kinds of the same happiness and the aesthetic fatigue caused by people show that we may not only need to pursue a good life, but we may need more understanding of a good life. We want to see real feelings about life, not a cookie-cutter "good life." But what is even more ironic is that I don't know how many people, like the heroine, have a beautiful breakfast, but it is not delicious. The photos posted by many people may not be their good life at all. Isn't this more ironic than hedonism and the monotonous good life?
The Violence of Big Data: What Does Our Rating System Bring Us?
After watching this episode, on the path out of the house, a delivery guy was very rude behind me and shouted, "Alas, alas!", and pulled me aside. I was really angry at the time, thinking if there is a scoring mechanism in the show If so, teach this rude person a lesson. In fact, in our current life, there are various scoring mechanisms, almost all types of consumption APPs have this function, and it does bring a lot of convenience to life. Now when I go to an unfamiliar place, I will look at the ratings on the website to choose food and lodging. The whole evaluation system does accumulate a lot of information with big data, and at the same time let the information serve daily life in an effective way. If the scoring system in the play is really designed, and the scoring system can be applied to various daily lives, it may have many good effects. When I was in middle school, there were always bad students in the class. They bullied their classmates and made the teachers angry. At that time, I would think, if I become the ruler of the earth, I will send these people to the moon. With this scoring system, I can keep these people away from me. Those other kinds of nasty people in my life, I can also find a way to punish him without paying too much for just a flick of a finger. At this time, it is equivalent to giving power to everyone. I don't need to be the ruler of the earth to achieve my goal. This is simply the most democratic system invention. But the problem comes from the violence of big data. Big data may provide a lot of information, but it cannot provide the unique experience of individuals. When everyone is identified by one data, everyone's unique experience becomes the object of violence. The heroine was originally a person with a good score in the play, but a few details made her score lower. Even if no one wants to take her on the road, no one can guarantee that they will not encounter bad luck, so While big data brings convenience, it may also bring violence to you. Not only that, if big data is a kind of power, then the most likely problem of power is the inequality caused by resource possession. The heroine's friend Naomi can ask the top data analysis company to create the most refined data improvement for herself. plan. This points to the class differentiation and isolation of the play's criticism.
Class stratification: We face increasingly sophisticated divisions and isolation
There has always been a question that has always bothered me before, if the reality is really as the thinkers say, society is so unequal, then why don't those poor people resist? Why are there such cruel slavery, fiefdoms... all kinds of systems, I realized later that in most cases, the unequal system is very delicate, and it is constantly being refined. We will find things that we think are right, such as self-cultivation, courtesy, good figure, effort, etc., and become the criteria for judging whether a person deserves a good life. So, like the heroine, we want to change our lives, we need to improve ourselves as much as possible, and live with the lifestyle of the upper class. To make tapenade yourself is to love life. In her eyes, even in the eyes of most people, the heroine is the one who is motivated and motivated. In contrast to her, she only knows how to play games, and her attitude towards others and her own. The younger brother who doesn't care much about scores. His younger brother is Luthor who doesn't work hard. In life, we often think of others the same way, and we think of ourselves the same way. It is this kind of thinking that makes this unequal society seem so reasonable that what we want is to try to be like those at the top, not to adapt the structure of inequality. What is scary in reality is the reproduction of capital. Because of her own advantages in resources, Naomi has more time to care about her figure. She can find a husband with the same amount of money, even within the ultimate evaluation system in the play. , through the excellent project planning provided by the data analysis company, she can continuously improve her score. And the heroine has done most of the things that she can do in her position. But maybe because of a few small things, her whole plan was ruined. This may be the most ironic and unacceptable reality of reality, and what is even scarier is that reality is often more cruel.
"Do we have the right to do wrong?": The meaning of postmodernity lies in deconstructing and reflecting on political correctness
Whether a good life can only be pictures in a circle of friends, or whether big data provides people with the most equal power, or whether it is a strategy of sophisticated stratification in society, all of these actually point to a more ambitious and abstract question , "Do we have the right to do wrong?" Travel, food, fitness, even reading, watching dramas, watching movies, all these politically correct things must be done? In the social process, do we have to love life, be polite, be active and healthy, and be kind to others? In life, do we have to work hard to climb up and live the life of the "upper class"? Many people may answer in the affirmative. In fact, almost all of our education has been like this since childhood. Whether it is the practice of self-cultivation in ancient China or the emphasis on personal efforts since the Western enlightenment, all of them point to many "modern values", and in modern values, living a good life, being a good person, and feeling the beauty in life is political correctness. It's hard for you to object with a reason. But what is always interesting about the world is that we have to pursue beauty, beauty brings us order, enjoyment, happiness, and happiness, but sometimes we don’t want beauty, I know to be reasonable, I know to work hard, I know to be polite, I know I can't say the F word, but I just want to say, even if it's not perfect, even if it's wrong, I know it's what I want to do, that's what makes me feel alive, makes me feel real value. Sometimes, we know beauty, we know right, we know everything we should, but thankfully, we should have the right not to, and I can. It is not here that all postmodern theories give meaning. But the scary and painful thing is that there are always two irreconcilable contradictions. If you blindly insist on doing the wrong thing, you may not be able to live a good life. It may be considered by the modern system as Luther, or it may be considered by the modern system to legitimize inequality through more complex and refined methods, allowing more people If you don't compete, you will be drunk. This may be the eternal confusion and tragedy of mankind!
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