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People loved them when it was cool. People hate them now it is cool. People are fickle and stupid.

c-hendricks 4y ago
Yeah that's not why we hate them
CatWChainsaw 4y ago
People are sick of being manipulated, exploited, commoditized, mocked, and dehumanized. Yeah they're so fickle and stupid.
- nebula8804 4y ago
  Naw in the 90s people spent their time following another group of abusers(the people who controlled the idiot box known as TV and before that the Radio). We shifted who the abusers are but the people still yearn to be abused.
  - ChuckNorris89 4y ago
    >but the people still yearn to be abused Reminds me of Agent Smith's PoV from the Matrix, that humans define their existence through suffering. The first version of the matrix had everyone living in paradise and made the system unstable as humans couldn't accept it and would try to wake up from it, dying in the process. Once they introduced misery, humans accepted the programming. Yeah, it's a fantasy movie, but it has great symbolisms that rings true.
    - nebula8804 4y ago
      Hmm thats some good insight I forgot about. My thinking was that humans have too much time on their hands and thus have accepted to filling their time by being abused because what else are they going to do?
    - DesiLurker 4y ago
      its not just misery, its misery with hope. otherwise things go downhill too. I guess this is where technology hate is coming from, the hope is getting extinguished by moving most of the fruits of technology to select few. I also feel tech these days is largely about making new toll booths instead of new roads.
  - mmcwilliams 4y ago
    Say what you will about the mind-numbing effects of movies and television, but at least the Neilsen ratings system was voluntarily-gathered data. The march towards ad tech has turned every product into a Neilsen ratings box that people share their most intimate secrets with. That's a marked difference.
ROTMetro 4y ago
Alternative take, people loved them when they didn't know much about them and thought of them as smart, but then they opened their mouths.
jjulius 4y ago
No... Some people loved them when it was cool, some people hated them. Some people hate them now that it's cool, some people still love them now that it's cool to hate them. People are fickle and stupid and life is not that black-and-white.

Yeah that's not why we hate them

People are sick of being manipulated, exploited, commoditized, mocked, and dehumanized. Yeah they're so fickle and stupid.

nebula8804 4y ago
Naw in the 90s people spent their time following another group of abusers(the people who controlled the idiot box known as TV and before that the Radio). We shifted who the abusers are but the people still yearn to be abused.
- ChuckNorris89 4y ago
  >but the people still yearn to be abused Reminds me of Agent Smith's PoV from the Matrix, that humans define their existence through suffering. The first version of the matrix had everyone living in paradise and made the system unstable as humans couldn't accept it and would try to wake up from it, dying in the process. Once they introduced misery, humans accepted the programming. Yeah, it's a fantasy movie, but it has great symbolisms that rings true.
  - nebula8804 4y ago
    Hmm thats some good insight I forgot about. My thinking was that humans have too much time on their hands and thus have accepted to filling their time by being abused because what else are they going to do?
  - DesiLurker 4y ago
    its not just misery, its misery with hope. otherwise things go downhill too. I guess this is where technology hate is coming from, the hope is getting extinguished by moving most of the fruits of technology to select few. I also feel tech these days is largely about making new toll booths instead of new roads.
- mmcwilliams 4y ago
  Say what you will about the mind-numbing effects of movies and television, but at least the Neilsen ratings system was voluntarily-gathered data. The march towards ad tech has turned every product into a Neilsen ratings box that people share their most intimate secrets with. That's a marked difference.

ROTMetro 4y ago

Alternative take, people loved them when they didn't know much about them and thought of them as smart, but then they opened their mouths.

jjulius 4y ago

No... Some people loved them when it was cool, some people hated them. Some people hate them now that it's cool, some people still love them now that it's cool to hate them. People are fickle and stupid and life is not that black-and-white.