["Cockroaches"]
This time the plot is set in the war years and tells the war between humans and "cockroaches" (children's shoes who have read the "Mars Alien" comics must be very familiar to them, but unfortunately the cockroaches here are not the kind that defy the sky monsters with abilities), cockroaches are mutant humans with infectious viruses in their blood, wandering in various places, often attacking villagers to steal materials, posing a real threat to the lives of normal human beings. So the government formed an army to defend humanity and slaughter the roaches that were still on the run. The coolest thing about the government's army is that their soldiers have a control system called "Max" (presumably a chip or something) implanted in their brains, and Max can receive electronic signals from drones, computers and other electronic The image information of the device is displayed in front of the user's eyes. Simply put, it's a VR display built into your brain. Soldiers with high-tech equipment have to meet evenly matched opponents. When I was eating, I was worried that "cockroaches" would be too disgusting. What if I was sprayed on the screen by a headshot? It turns out that my worries were unnecessary.
He really looked like Voldemort, with sharp teeth and thin mouth, his eyes were empty like black holes, his face was pale, and he hissed and screamed in horror. "Cockroach" is not as powerful as imagined, and there is no mutation in his body. Except for his ugly appearance, he is no different from ordinary people. Our protagonist Streep killed two "cockroaches" on his first job, and even the sharpshooter girl praised him for his awesomeness. However, Stoudemire was photographed by a flash pen during the fight against "cockroaches", and his mind became numb when he returned to the base. The second time I went to work, the captain was shot in the head by a cockroach with a rifle before he finished reading the lines. Xiao Si rushed into the abandoned house with fear and a confused mind, but found that there were no cockroaches. There are people everywhere, clearly pale people, fleeing in the cry for help. Xiao Si was completely stunned. He stopped the teammates who shot and killed the civilians, protected the civilians from escaping the abandoned building, and heard the truth from the civilians, the truth that broke him.
【Stigmatization】
I don't think anyone will ever forget how the Nazis massacred Jews during WWII. The Nazi Party denounced the Jews as liars in the guise of businessmen, and as social cancers with corrupt morals. For the sake of the future of mankind, they will be eradicated and wiped out. But in fact, Jews are smart and hard-working, and they have built a very good reputation in Europe with years of hard work, which has attracted the jealousy of the powerful. The ancients said that the teachers are famous, and if you want to suppress the Jews, you must put them on charges, degrade them as public enemies of the society, and cause everyone's hatred, and then you can use military force to slaughter the Jews as a matter of course. Yesterday's history reappears here. The so-called "cockroaches" are actually civilians with genetic disease genes. After genetic testing, they were expelled and killed, and they lived in the dark all day long. The government also used the same set of stigmatization methods, brainwashing people in history education, stigmatizing these exiles as "virus carriers", inciting people's hatred, and encouraging the whole people to hunt down cockroaches. At that time, the Nazis also advocated the "blood theory", believing that the Aryan race was the chosen people of God, and their Germans, as the descendants of the Aryans, should rule the world instead of being oppressed by other races. With his superb speech skills and sensational performances, Hitler deeply engraved this blood theory in the minds of the German people, cultivated a group of loyal followers, and laid a solid foundation for his dictatorship. It can be seen that if the government wants to monopolize the power and eliminate all the voices and forces of opposition, it only needs to stigmatize the opponents and mobilize the people to hate the opponents, and half the success will be achieved. People became accomplices to the dictatorship, and the voices of independence and freedom were drowned out in the frenetic marches and support.
【Go to sympathy】
In order to fully realize the dictatorship, it is also necessary to have an army that is extremely loyal and kills without blinking an eye. Max was born for this. As mentioned earlier, Max is a system implanted in the brain that not only receives images, but more importantly, it can control the soldier's vision, hearing and smell. It's not enough for the government to brainwash you that civilians in ragged clothes are monsters. For soldiers to kill civilians without psychological pressure, another factor is needed - fear. In order to make the soldiers shoot more decisively, Max will make the appearance of the "cockroaches" very scary, and turn the cry for help into a harsh scream, which brings real fear to the soldiers. In order to relieve fear, people generally resort to attacking themselves to defend themselves, which gives soldiers a reasonable reason to shoot cockroaches - they are not people, and I have to kill them to protect myself. In addition, the hatred that was usually instilled was poured out the moment he met the cockroach. The disgust of one species for the other instantly sparked the anger of the group of soldiers, who didn't hesitate to shoot the unarmed "cockroaches".
In my opinion, the most terrible thing is not the brainwashing of the government, but the control of the Max system. Ordinary soldiers hesitate when shooting civilians because they still have sympathy in their hearts. They can feel that it is a living life, that it is the last hope of a family, and that child may have the same as their own. age, and every time they pull the trigger, they will suffer inwardly. Many U.S. soldiers in the Vietnam campaign had serious psychological problems after the war, largely because they were forced to drop cannonballs at the innocent people of Vietnam under the pressure of their superiors. Even if they use the excuse of the survival of the country and the responsibility of the soldiers to comfort themselves afterwards, they cannot escape the responsibility of their conscience. Now, the Max system makes sympathy no longer work, and the soldiers without exception have become powerful weapons at the mercy of the government, referring to whoever kills who, without any psychological pressure. This time, they finally became the killing weapon. But who can guarantee that such a tragedy will not happen to us?
【Media Control】
Every episode of Black Mirror infiltrates the impact of the high-tech medium on people, and built-in visual controllers are nothing new. But this episode is the scariest because this controller is not controlled by us, it is controlled by others and can arbitrarily change the objective reality we see. We have become the puppets of the media, the tools of the media to achieve their goals. Thinking about it carefully, I realize that this technology is more like an upgraded version of AR. AR is the processing of the real world, projecting virtual images on real people and objects. I'm really glad that now we can still throw Poke Balls on the lawn to conquer cute Pikachu. Just imagine if one day, everyone around us becomes a giant mouse, covered with yellow fluff, dragging a trail behind it. Twisting tails, throwing Pokeballs that turn into lethal grenades, are we playing as a righteous Pokemon breeder or a warrior who takes orders to recover monsters?
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