They literally realized Neil Postman's above titled book as a drama. It also has some Idiocracy in it.
Basically our social system fails to create a highly probable solution to an extinction level event because we are stupidified by lack of critical thinking skills which then turns the political system into a rich people's toy. There is the pop culture and commercialization of everything - I guess even our deaths could be monetized from an amusement perspective - as well as political disinformation machines.
The constructive skills of humankind such as engineering, medicine and art are no longer king. We have so much, so why bother to build new things/systems with effort when you can manipulate with the power of populism? Politics does not care about added value and in fact neither does business which just needs lemmings like users so eventually the concept of a citizen turns into a consumer and thus the idiotic decay starts...
I give the film 7/10 plus 1/10 as a service to humanity so the total is ... 7, 1, 4, 10 oh it's 8/10.
FYI, I read a career comparison between the US and China where US/UK youth aim to be Youtubers and the Chinese, scientists. So, I'm hoping China or some other country will save us because this Amusing Ourselves to Death trend is real.
A big cheers/respect to the late Neil Postman.
Basically our social system fails to create a highly probable solution to an extinction level event because we are stupidified by lack of critical thinking skills which then turns the political system into a rich people's toy. There is the pop culture and commercialization of everything - I guess even our deaths could be monetized from an amusement perspective - as well as political disinformation machines.
The constructive skills of humankind such as engineering, medicine and art are no longer king. We have so much, so why bother to build new things/systems with effort when you can manipulate with the power of populism? Politics does not care about added value and in fact neither does business which just needs lemmings like users so eventually the concept of a citizen turns into a consumer and thus the idiotic decay starts...
I give the film 7/10 plus 1/10 as a service to humanity so the total is ... 7, 1, 4, 10 oh it's 8/10.
FYI, I read a career comparison between the US and China where US/UK youth aim to be Youtubers and the Chinese, scientists. So, I'm hoping China or some other country will save us because this Amusing Ourselves to Death trend is real.
A big cheers/respect to the late Neil Postman.