I finally got around to catching up with the latest season of Black Mirror. Overall my favorite season, and especially episodes one, four, five and six. The finale (Black Museum) was an excellent crown piece.
Some random thoughts:
Is the future of neuroscience all about the transferring of consciousness? Let’s take a look at what that could mean for our rapidly degrading social sphere.
I could really use a machine that allowed me to share physical sensations with others so that I could experience both male and female orgasms at the same time. I wonder if that would be sold primarily as a sex toy?
Of course the pleasure seeker ends up addicted to pain. This is death drive theory here, à la Lacan.
Ironically the fundamentalist Christian opposition to euthanasia suggests we’re nothing more than our physical bodies. I suppose life in the body of a Teddy Bear is better for them than an end to misery. Well in this version of the future, we can actually do that.
The twist, consciousness in the future is like the body today, just another object or product.
Also our official morality is just a concession and a compromise. It sanctions all our abusive chaos and it’s guilt free.
An innocent black man wrongfully convicted of murder, coerced into transferring his consciousness into a holographic ghost, so that some greedy corporate devil can make a buck. Now that’s how you build a metaphor. They (the greedy devil) places the poor guy’s ghost into a side show where you get to pull the lever on his execution and force him to experience the pain. You might think, “What kind of sick society gets their rocks off on crap like that?” and forget you probably live in that society. It’s a white supremacist wet dream. Send the greedy devil to the hell of a virtual keychain that immortalizes his suffering in that same electric chair. That’s what I call an ending.
Black Museum (Black Mirror Season 4 finale)
I finally got around to catching up with the latest season of Black Mirror. Overall my favorite season, and especially episodes one, four, five and six. The finale (Black Museum) was an excellent crown piece.
Some random thoughts:
Is the future of neuroscience all about the transferring of consciousness? Let’s take a look at what that could mean for our rapidly degrading social sphere.
I could really use a machine that allowed me to share physical sensations with others so that I could experience both male and female orgasms at the same time. I wonder if that would be sold primarily as a sex toy?
Of course the pleasure seeker ends up addicted to pain. This is death drive theory here, à la Lacan.
Ironically the fundamentalist Christian opposition to euthanasia suggests we’re nothing more than our physical bodies. I suppose life in the body of a Teddy Bear is better for them than an end to misery. Well in this version of the future, we can actually do that.
The twist, consciousness in the future is like the body today, just another object or product.
Also our official morality is just a concession and a compromise. It sanctions all our abusive chaos and it’s guilt free.
An innocent black man wrongfully convicted of murder, coerced into transferring his consciousness into a holographic ghost, so that some greedy corporate devil can make a buck. Now that’s how you build a metaphor. They (the greedy devil) places the poor guy’s ghost into a side show where you get to pull the lever on his execution and force him to experience the pain. You might think, “What kind of sick society gets their rocks off on crap like that?” and forget you probably live in that society. It’s a white supremacist wet dream. Send the greedy devil to the hell of a virtual keychain that immortalizes his suffering in that same electric chair. That’s what I call an ending.