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Jan. 12th, 2018
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heyitsaznfangirl:
#best cinematic representation of siblings
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#best cinematic representation of siblings
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woodygaythrie:
I’m not sure how people walk away from certain episodes of Black Mirror thinking the main point is, like, “iPhones are bad and technology is scawwy!!” And not “in capitalist systems and institutions where inequality persists, technology will be exploited to enforce the status quo”
Almost all of the nightmarish scenarios in Black Mirror are not produced by technology but evil assholes abusing it. Seriously.
Virtual reality that can create literally anything and allow people to experience it as if they were there? Great! Until it gets in the hands of a sociopathic fanboy with a victimhood complex and a nostalgia boner.
Consciousness transferrence that can allow dead or comatose people to communicate with their loved ones when they never could before, and even live on after death? Miraculous! We even saw how beautiful this could be in “San Junipero”. Until a slimy “entrepreneur” on the leash of an amoral corporation cooks up scheme after scheme to exploit disadvantaged people with it for his own gain.
Robotic bees that can propagate pollination and environmental restoration on an nationwide scale? Best thing ever! Until some judgmental Unabomber wannabe who thinks he should have the right to play god with the lives of thousands of people turns them into weapons of mass destruction because the governmental couldn’t resist also using such an amazing technological breakthrough to consolidate its power over its own people.
Black Mirror isn’t technophobic. It’s just very cynical about how humans will inevitably use that technology.
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woodygaythrie:
I’m not sure how people walk away from certain episodes of Black Mirror thinking the main point is, like, “iPhones are bad and technology is scawwy!!” And not “in capitalist systems and institutions where inequality persists, technology will be exploited to enforce the status quo”
Almost all of the nightmarish scenarios in Black Mirror are not produced by technology but evil assholes abusing it. Seriously.
Virtual reality that can create literally anything and allow people to experience it as if they were there? Great! Until it gets in the hands of a sociopathic fanboy with a victimhood complex and a nostalgia boner.
Consciousness transferrence that can allow dead or comatose people to communicate with their loved ones when they never could before, and even live on after death? Miraculous! We even saw how beautiful this could be in “San Junipero”. Until a slimy “entrepreneur” on the leash of an amoral corporation cooks up scheme after scheme to exploit disadvantaged people with it for his own gain.
Robotic bees that can propagate pollination and environmental restoration on an nationwide scale? Best thing ever! Until some judgmental Unabomber wannabe who thinks he should have the right to play god with the lives of thousands of people turns them into weapons of mass destruction because the governmental couldn’t resist also using such an amazing technological breakthrough to consolidate its power over its own people.
Black Mirror isn’t technophobic. It’s just very cynical about how humans will inevitably use that technology.
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spidypool: I was trying to protect you.
Jan. 12th, 2018 09:46 amvia http://ift.tt/2AU8ChX:
spidypool:
I was trying to protect you.
No, you don’t care about me.
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spidypool:
I was trying to protect you.
No, you don’t care about me.
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frozen-delight:
4x22 | Lucifer Rising
This shot is beyond brilliant. Everything about the angels and the Apocalypse is right there in this composition.
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frozen-delight:
4x22 | Lucifer Rising
This shot is beyond brilliant. Everything about the angels and the Apocalypse is right there in this composition.
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raymukada: iasip meme: [2/2] scenes:↳
Jan. 12th, 2018 03:01 pmvia http://ift.tt/2AV3Uk1:
raymukada:
iasip meme: [2/2] scenes:
↳ s09e08, flowers for charlie.
“It’s not about brute force… it’s about seduction.”
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raymukada:
iasip meme: [2/2] scenes:
↳ s09e08, flowers for charlie.
“It’s not about brute force… it’s about seduction.”
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“She sits at his hearth,
and they listen to the wind carry
from the hills a sound of pipe,
and they search the distance if still
the sickle moon sparkles on the quivering sea.
And her heart glistens in the darkness
nor does it yet darken it with doubts
like yours does, Dianora.
For doesn’t she know that Love is like a breath of breeze on
a sonorous lyre,”
- Luisa Giaconi, from “Dianora,” A Selection of Modern Italian Poetry in Translation edited by Roberta L. Payne (McGill-Queen’s University Press , 2004)
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“She sits at his hearth,
and they listen to the wind carry
from the hills a sound of pipe,
and they search the distance if still
the sickle moon sparkles on the quivering sea.
And her heart glistens in the darkness
nor does it yet darken it with doubts
like yours does, Dianora.
For doesn’t she know that Love is like a breath of breeze on
a sonorous lyre,”
- Luisa Giaconi, from “Dianora,” A Selection of Modern Italian Poetry in Translation edited by Roberta L. Payne (McGill-Queen’s University Press , 2004)
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“I waited, as if the sea could make my decision for me.”
- Sylvia Plath, The Bell Jar (via theclassicsreader)
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“I waited, as if the sea could make my decision for me.”
- Sylvia Plath, The Bell Jar (via theclassicsreader)
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