Lot⁴⁹Jul 10, 2023
A short film about modern life.
Show threadTom ArmstrongJul 11, 2023

@12thRITS This is a Moby video clip (https://www.songfacts.com/facts/moby/are-you-lost-in-the-world-like-me)… and it’s always rubbed me the wrong way.

I can’t disagree with “these systems are failing”, but some things about the video bug me. There’s a sexist/slut-shaming aspect to the way it depicts women, for one.

The video picks on the people filming police violence with their phones, as though that hasn’t been a powerful tool for exposing and addressing police wrongdoing (also, what else *should* they do?)

Show threadTom ArmstrongJul 11, 2023

@12thRITS On the whole, it’s always seemed like a facile “TECH AND PHONES R BAD, WHY CANT PPL BE CIVILISED ANYMORE??” take, where I wish it had a little more sympathy for the people shown, and a little more curiosity about those failing systems.

100% on the money in depicting the postural dangers of “tech-neck” though 😜

**self-consciously straightens posture**

Show threadspherulitic
@tom_armstrong @12thRITS this completely — it’s a superficial piece that reads like the creator hasn’t spent any time actually thinking about the problems in society.
Jul 11, 2023 at 3:24amWeb
Show threadTom ArmstrongJul 11, 2023

@spherulitic @12thRITS There’s some painful irony in the animator’s use of a circa-1930s visual style for the animation.

People who’d love to turn back the clock to the 1950s or earlier tend to forget (or don’t care) that there are many people for whom things in that era were… less ideal.

That said, if we’re talking Sci-fi time-travel assassination schemes, there’s a climate-based argument for stopping the Koch brothers and Rupert Murdoch in time 🤔