Behavior on social media can definitely have consequences in real life, even violent. Many shooters vere radicalized by social media groups, for example.
Comment on The Aliens did a little trolling
pinkdrunkenelephants@lemmy.world 1 year agoI get that what he’s trying to do, it’s just his actions are self-defeating. The only reason the behavior on social media has violent consequences is because he’s imposing them; no one else in that story is killing people based on meaningless Facebook polls. They only matter because he makes them matter. He causes the problems he thinks he is solving.
Also he assumes his actions will make people reconsider their choices and change, which they won’t because people for the most part aren’t capable of change. Most people don’t have the ability to do so. Those who do deliberately refuse to because they’re happy the way they are regardless of their true nature’s consequences to other people.
It’s just a stupid gimmicky show pretending to be deep to get views. That’s all.
stepanzak@iusearchlinux.fyi 1 year ago
pinkdrunkenelephants@lemmy.world 11 months ago
A fair point. The episode just doesn’t demonstrate it well at all.
JackbyDev@programming.dev 1 year ago
This is how every episode of Black Mirror is. Just little interesting “what if” scenarios that make you think. In the same way that fairy tales are contrived and unrealistic these are too.
Nobsi@feddit.de 1 year ago
How does this make you think?
JackbyDev@programming.dev 1 year ago
The fact that there’s some discussion going on about it is evidence of that. It’s similar to the “would you press a button for a million dollars but a random person on earth dies” type of question. “Does voting to kill someone mean your responsible for the murder if they’re going to kill someone anyways?”
Nobsi@feddit.de 1 year ago
I’m sorry i was just being mean to be mean. I think blackmirror is as thought provoking or interesting as the big bang theory