@ishe@cupoftea.social Yes, this is interesting to explore.
And the media scope of countries I immersed into: US dem-oriented, russian opposition (and "opposition" too), Ukraine, Georgia country. So I noticed that "Don't look up" movie caused 2 polar reactions - like "FUUU!!11 Again climate hoax hysteria!!11" (especially from far-right and internet incels) and "Oh, finally a pro-science and pro-climate movie here!" (especially from left-leaning people).
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@ishe@cupoftea.social And I even thought that noise about that movie is overblown. I heard that the movie itself is a satire, like "Space Force" series. But "Don't look up" taken too seriously by everyone who brought this movie into center of their attention.
@koteisaev@mastodon.online I think it's a bit of a problem when films are taken too seriously or not seriously enough. I feel viewers should meet somewhere between these extremes.
For example, when "The Hunger Games" movies came out, a friend was confused as to where the plot was to be taking place. I explained it is a fictional version of a future America. Friend replied saying, "Oh, that could never happen in America..." and I think about that statement a lot lately.
@ishe@cupoftea.social It reminds me how I thought that The Running Man backstory happened in Russia IRL but without protests of hungry people and without any perspective of hero who would turn the TV off at large scale and show the truth to the people - Navalny is dead for years, Nemtsov has been assassinated in 2015, and people don't protest for a while, partly because peaceful protest with walk-outs, signs, and chants does not work in a real dictatorship.
@koteisaev@mastodon.online "...partly because peaceful protest with walk-outs, signs, and chants does not work in a real dictatorship."
I agree that it does not work. While I fully support the idea of peaceful protests, I also feel that there are certain conditions -- such as a dictatorship -- in which protests may cause more harm [to the people, civilians] than good.
It's incredibly unfortunate.
@ishe@cupoftea.social I specially listed these popular forms of peaceful protests, but in dictatorship other things can work:
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steal something from workplace - from pens and pencils to meat and bread, from few bolts to a piece of cloth.
π΄ββ οΈ drink tea at construction bureau instead drawing a weapon blueprint or rocket calculation
π΄ββ οΈ generally, "work more but do less"
π΄ββ οΈ do more of worse quality (because it is single way to more from same materials and (over)do the plan)
Over time this killed even USSR.
@koteisaev@mastodon.online I wish that there were more and clearer lessons teaching the value of occasionally breaking the rules in this manner. That is true freedom.
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