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All the books and movies about bad stuff all in one! Not really sure where The Matrix fits there...like, is the heritage foundation gonna turn us into computer programs?

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[–] GalaxyBrain@hexbear.net 38 points 1 day ago (5 children)

So much of this makes no sense. How the fuck is lord of the flies a cross section between 1984, animal farm and faremheight 451, which also makes it Logan's run if you add Animal Farm to Logans Run? I've read/seen all of these and there isn't any commonality here

[–] Frivolous_Beatnik@hexbear.net 30 points 1 day ago (4 children)

I'm more stumped by Handmaid's Tale + Brave New World = Brazil centrist

[–] hexaflexagonbear@hexbear.net 17 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Throw in some Fahrenheit 451 and you get the Matrix.

[–] GalaxyBrain@hexbear.net 17 points 1 day ago (1 children)

My Thesis on Literature that I live by is that you can bend anything to any interpretation but the further your take strays from authorial intent the more you need to justify that take and this can be taken to absurd extremes if you are really good at bullshitting. This venn diagram proved me wrong

[–] ThermonuclearEgg@hexbear.net 5 points 1 day ago

It didn't disprove your thesis. Libs are really good at bullshitting via clown-to-clown-communicationclown-to-clown-conversation

[–] GalaxyBrain@hexbear.net 17 points 1 day ago

None make any sense

[–] Evilphd666@hexbear.net 10 points 1 day ago

The Matrix is outside 1984 jeb

[–] regul@hexbear.net 11 points 1 day ago

Brazil has far more in common with The Trial than it does with either of those two movies.

[–] Krem@hexbear.net 18 points 1 day ago (1 children)

lord of the flies was about a one-party state with mass surveillance and omnipresent propaganda, where all books were burned, and it's theocratical and any women that can bear children are forced to do so. that's what happened in the book about boys on an island

[–] GalaxyBrain@hexbear.net 15 points 1 day ago (2 children)

Imagine a kid saying "sucks to your as-mar!" To a human face again and again and again

[–] Krem@hexbear.net 10 points 1 day ago

if you take thebasic premise of Lord of the flies, but replace Big brother and surveillance with genetic caste society and consumerist hedonism, you get The Matrix

[–] GeorgeZBush@hexbear.net 23 points 1 day ago

It's all just shit they read/watched in high school

[–] HumanBehaviorByBjork@hexbear.net 17 points 1 day ago (2 children)

they don't know what a venn diagram is

Clearly, because this isn't a valid venn diagram

[–] GalaxyBrain@hexbear.net 13 points 1 day ago

They're the thing where you draw circles and write stuff in them.

[–] ChaosMaterialist@hexbear.net 14 points 1 day ago (1 children)

I usually shitpost cognitohazard but this might actually be justified this time.

[–] GalaxyBrain@hexbear.net 12 points 1 day ago

I source most of the weird shit I find from Facebook, it's genuinely the best website for finding just the worst stuff posted with no irony or self awareness.