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Except, didn't the intro to the Jetsons have George headed to the office every day?
by mattw2121 3y ago
Except, didn't the intro to the Jetsons have George headed to the office every day?
- nedrylandJP 3y agoYes, and when he got there he put his feet up and closed his eyes. https://youtu.be/0JQbeCAlF6s?t=61 https://youtu.be/0JQbeCAlF6s?t=61
- drekk 3y agoWhat does it say about our culture that futuristic media envisioned flying cars and robotic servants but not an altered labor arrangement?
- trgn 3y agoModernism. Infatuation with the transformative power of technology. It transfers responsibilities of political participation (what it means to be a citizen) to a mechanistic, consumptive process (what it means to be a consumer). Could not exist without mass manufacturing (without which technology cannot fulfill its telos) or mass media (without which humans would not submit to this ideology).
- 0cf8612b2e1e 3y agoIt was a kid’s show. I doubt it was meant to be a cutting commentary on social structures.
- j4yav 3y agoAnd, while we are at it, what's up with the Flintstones and dinosaurs and humans living side by side. If that isn't commentary on the sorry state of academic culture I don't know what else is.
- joquarky 3y agoFlintstones is based in the future, not the past ;-) Also, do cassowaries count as dinosaurs?
- MattPalmer1086 3y agoI'm not sure it says anything about our culture specifically. It speaks to all cultures. The future is always going to be what we have now, but sexier in some way. So replace cars with flying ones, and replace work we do with robotic servants. The really interesting science fiction doesn't do a linear extrapolation, it looks at how we might really change. But that's not what we get from a kid's cartoon.
- fknorangesite 3y agoYes, that's what they're saying: that the Jetsons completely missed this prediction.