I made what might have been the mistake of showing my teenager Idiocracy recently, because now she compares everything to it. I mean she’s not wrong, but…
Absolutely not a mistake. When I read 1984 as a teenager, it forever inoculated me against doublespeak and propaganda. Maybe that movie can fulfill a similar function today.
I know it wasn’t actually a mistake. There’s just been a lot of “that’s just like Idiocracy!” “I know, I know” conversations now. She’s never wrong, obviously.
(This is satire)
I made what might have been the mistake of showing my teenager Idiocracy recently, because now she compares everything to it. I mean she’s not wrong, but…
Absolutely not a mistake. When I read 1984 as a teenager, it forever inoculated me against doublespeak and propaganda. Maybe that movie can fulfill a similar function today.
I know it wasn’t actually a mistake. There’s just been a lot of “that’s just like Idiocracy!” “I know, I know” conversations now. She’s never wrong, obviously.
If it wasn’t that, she’d find something else to be obnoxious about. For me everything was literally 1984 at the time.
Now you’re older, how frequently do you think you were right in your comparisons?