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Just for those who have remarked that they live in Brazil. It's the movie Brazil that this meme is referring to.

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[–] [email protected] 117 points 1 month ago (1 children)

"I wonder why all these societal commentaries feel like society"

[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 month ago

I wonder if there's a general vibe to these specific societal commentaries...

[–] [email protected] 73 points 1 month ago (3 children)

Needs to fit in Handmaids Tale here somewhere too.

[–] [email protected] 27 points 1 month ago

Swap it with The Matrix

[–] [email protected] 4 points 4 weeks ago

And cyberpunk

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[–] [email protected] 44 points 1 month ago (2 children)

Oh, don't be so dramatic. We're nowhere near that yet. We're just rapidly spiraling toward it like a disoriented skydiver tangled in the lines of their reserve chute.

[–] [email protected] 19 points 1 month ago (2 children)

Don't forget that we are actually skydiving in tandem with someone who either doesn't believe in gravity, is trying to hit the ground on purpose, or both.

[–] wolframhydroxide 10 points 4 weeks ago* (last edited 4 weeks ago) (1 children)

That person is actively stabbing at the harness with a rusty pair of shears while accusing you of sabotaging the jump. Sometimes they end up stabbing themselves, but usually they just end up stabbing you through the harness instead.

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[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 month ago

Plunging toward oblivion while happily screaming, "10,000' so far so good, 5,000' so far so good..."

[–] [email protected] 36 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (2 children)

Ah yes, the four cornerstones of dystopian fiction: 1984, Brave New World, Idiocracy, and Hunger Games

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Should have gone with Social, Political, Economical and (Post-)Apocalyptical.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 4 weeks ago (2 children)

I had a go at Authoritarian, Scarcity, Chaotic, and Plentiful

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[–] MyNameIsIgglePiggle 4 points 4 weeks ago (1 children)

Where's weekend at Bernie's

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[–] [email protected] 33 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Only sometimes? How do you make it NOT feel like that?

[–] [email protected] 36 points 1 month ago (2 children)
[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Can't spell drugs without U

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[–] kruhmaster 8 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Recreating reality since, like, forever

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[–] [email protected] 30 points 1 month ago (3 children)

This diagram would make the same amount of sense if you randomized the titles in it.
Maybe they're already random.

[–] [email protected] 16 points 1 month ago (2 children)

Nah, I can see it.

  • 1984: they’re rewriting history / propagandizing
  • Idiocracy: the morons are in charge
  • Hunger Games: they’re pitting us against each other
  • Brave New World: they’re distracting us with entertainment

The others seem to fall pretty well into those categories.

[–] [email protected] 16 points 1 month ago (1 children)

They're also rewriting history in Idiocracy (It's actually a key story element at the end).
"They're pitting us against each other" is one of the most important aspects in 1984.
And "They're distracting us with entertainment" is literally at the core of Hunger Games.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 month ago

So it still works beautifully

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 month ago (1 children)

now explain brazil there, how is it om the 1984 and not hunger games

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (2 children)

Are you thinking of the film or the country?

The film has a large overbearing surveillance state / bureaucracy as the chief antagonist, it’s about the suppression of art and loss of human connection. Do you see it differently?

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[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 month ago

Yeah it's not really even a joke it's just for the clapter. If someone said to you "it's like we're living in a dystopian future" it would be the same level of humor as this post.

The only thing putting it in a four-way venn diagram added was to explain to the reader that the person doesn't know how venn diagrams work.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 month ago (1 children)

I was wondering how Lord of the Flies fit in the Idiocracy circle.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 month ago

Kids are dumb

[–] [email protected] 21 points 1 month ago (1 children)

FFS just put on the damn sunglasses.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 month ago (1 children)

No we need to have an unnecessary 10 minute fistfight instead of just trying it for myself.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 month ago

And in so doing, we'll have the greatest first fight ever committed to film.

[–] [email protected] 17 points 1 month ago (5 children)

Those films were supposed to be a warning .... NOT A GUIDE!

[–] [email protected] 13 points 1 month ago

Torment Nexus! Torment Nexus!

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[–] ThunderLegend 11 points 1 month ago

I'm in Brazil and I feel this.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 month ago

I stared at this for a good couple of minutes trying to figure out why the new Captain America movie was in the diagram

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (2 children)

Throws in "Flight of the Navigator" to skip forward eight years.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 month ago

Evangelion will let you skip ahead 14 years...

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[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 month ago

Media is inspired by reality.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 month ago (1 children)

very weak in the subgroupings. There could be 2 axises of dystopia. 1. Autocratic vs chaotic 2. some attempt to mean well vs dystopia by design.

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[–] [email protected] 6 points 4 weeks ago (2 children)

Love to see Soylent Green on there. Both in a metaphorically and quickly approaching literal sense.

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[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 month ago

I would throw in Snow Crash as well

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 month ago

No, I'm not 'HERE', I'm in Brazil

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 month ago

The “you are here” is where libertarians think they and 0,0 are on a political compass meme

[–] [email protected] 4 points 4 weeks ago

Terry Gilliam's Brazil is a masterpiece. He denies it, but anyone that has seen the movie and really knew Brazil in the eighties knows that movie is absolutely about the country.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 month ago

Lol not even close lmao 🤣

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