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>You might end up more enlightened but you will probably also end up less happy. Ignorance is bliss. Keep smiling peasant, you don't want to risk your bliss by
by coldtea 1y ago
>You might end up more enlightened but you will probably also end up less happy.
Ignorance is bliss. Keep smiling peasant, you don't want to risk your bliss by knowing that you're bound for the Soylent Green factory or that everybody in power and business plays you for a foul
- im3w1l 1y agoThis but unironically. In the movie no one was killed for the purpose of being turned into soylent green, they just used bodies of people who were dead anyway. I remember thinking that it's not such a big deal compared to all the other misery in that movie, and that ignorance was bliss in that respect. I don't fully remember the movie anymore, but there were many other things that were much worse that actually happened on an ongoing basis and leading to people suffering. Like the poverty.
- rixed 1y agoThe massive waste of human lives that result from the extreme poverty displayed in the movie is indeed the worse regression imaginable, and the worse objection to the reverence of modernity, but we are so accustomed to it that we would all have forgotten the movie if not for the twist about cannibalism.
- coldtea 1y agoIt's the reverence of modernity that got them there