my family is so. fucking weird and resistant to talking about anything. when i was a small child i asked my mother why she had a lot of gifts and things where people called her by another name and she like. didn’t give me a straight answer? it was her Hebrew name. like that’s literally it. that’s all u had to say
great-great-grandma cohen refused to tell her younger children that they were related to her two eldest children
my family didn’t tell me about part of my actual name until i sent away for my social security info to get my driver’s permit in my junior year of high school. i have an entire middle name that no one ever felt the need to mention to me
i had to google my own brother to find out why we don’t talk about him anymore
one morning in seventh grade my mother was driving me to school and asked me if she was too overprotective. i told her “yeah, sometimes.” then she casually, calmly went, “maybe it’s because you were almost kidnapped as a baby”
she didn’t even elaborate until i asked her to explain
(my father later confirmed that i was, in fact, briefly stolen as an infant)
my mom just dropped this information on me for the first time and was then like “bye honey have a good day at school”
I honestly don’t understand why so many millennials love Black Mirror. I mean, there’s nothing wrong with it, if you like it that’s great, but the premise of every single episode is just:
Everyone’s calling it the next Twilight Zone but at least The Twilight Zone made sure that every single episode had a different moral about how we as a human society are indefinitely screwed. It never solely focused on technology.
I just don’t get it, the writing/message is a collection of everything millennials hate and bash in other shows/books/real-world interviews with older generations.
just my grain of salt, but as i just rewatched a whole bunch of black mirror episodes, i got the sense that what black mirror criticizes isn’t technology itself, but the people and/or the ideology behind it. most of black mirror comes off to me as way more anti-capitalism than anything else.
Yeah it comes off to me as not a criticism of technology it’s self but what people in power can use it for.
