Her wasn’t a warning message about the dangers of AI. It was Spike Jonze reflecting on the slow dissolution of his marriage, coming to terms with the idea that he had taken his wife for granted, an always-available thing that existed to validate his feelings, rather than a whole person who was growing and changing beyond him.
Anyone who hasn’t done so should try watching Lost in Translation and Her back-to-back. They both star Scarlett Johansson as a thinly-veiled stand-in for Sofia Coppola as each filmmaker examines how their relationships impact their self-image and ambition. Together, they form such a detailed and affecting picture of two sensitive people who just can’t connect. It’s like (other ScarJo movie) A Marriage Story, but more nuanced and capable of occasional levity.
“Finally we have created the Torment Nexus…”
And yet, when someone dares to imagine a hopeful tomorrow in fiction: “Fuck you and your naive, pollyanna, childish, unrealistic horseshit, you dumb idiot.”
Star Trek would never have been greenlighted if it had been created in the late 70s or any point after that.
A post-scarcity society where humans (sometimes) get along with literal aliens? Not in THIS Neoliberal hegemony!
Just watched the finale of DS9. It features an orange-hued dictator with bad skin and weird hair at the top of a dictatorship staffed by religiously-devoted yes-men, hyper-aggressive murder troopers, and cynical opportunists, who even as the whole thing is falling apart around their ears, keep trying to find another patsy to take the blame for the ever-deteriorating situation.
So, spot-on depiction of the future, really.
Pleasantville as well. Kids are too insecure to express themselves with the whole world watching, and are more sexually repressed. And that suuuuuuuucks.
If only… kids be gettin social media and fuckin at like eight now, it’s kinda the other way around
Actually sexual activity among teens and people well into their 20s (Alpha and Zoomers) is down drastically compared to previous generations.
It’s an oft-cited reason for concern with regard to social alienation and overall loss of community by the social science academies.
The way I’ve heard it, masturbation is on the rise and sex is on the decline. Characteristics of grooming are on the rise. And that suuuuuuucks
You can have both excessively early sexual exploration and excessive self repression as a product of social media. Just to postulate: at early ages self consciousness hasn’t set in making sexual activity just a thing, and then when the teenage mind forms and self consciousness sets in one sees sexual behavior as childish. It is absolutely possible that what you see and the statistically observed sexual repression of modern youth are a product of the same forces
It’s time we stand up against these pesky etc.!!
Yeah!
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electron_transport_chain
I should be able to decide how my electrons are transported!
