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"The revolution is never enough. Why is it always this narrative form? Why can’t Westworld season four be about robots and working-class humans building a society that’s finally fully democratic and rational?
A new society that bans the rape of robots. One that opens all opportunities for human workers. I could imagine a scene in episode one of season four where there is a deep debate about voting rights for robots."
remember when Haiti Freed
Itself? remember how Bad it
mightta Got if Other Slaves
took note? Capitalism cannot
Compete with an Open Egal-
tarian Society -- which is also
why 'republicans' gotta Cheat
to stay in Power -- there is no
There there. and We the Peeps
can clearly see that so no there
is no Utopia that does not involve
Capitalism and its Inevitable result
dystopia.
it's just
the Natural
Order of Things.
you can even ask dewey.
they don't want us lying around lazy-like &
sucking up precious O2 @
two bucks a liter
plus
Puritans ain't
Afraid of Work.
Not sure why you think the revolution will be televised. The entertainment-industrial complex exists to perpetuate the myth of redemptive violence. It offers catharsis through violence, but not redemption, let alone revolution.
Bounced around a few episodes and I couldn’t even manage a minor fuck about any particular character. The whole of Westworld is on Ambien - as listless a the queue at a Laurelhurst cafe. Seriously - who gives a fuck about anyone in the production?
I always appreciate Mudede’s unabashedly academic takes on popular culture, but sorry man this show makes me want to impale my own colon with a fork.
"Why can’t Westworld season four be about robots and working-class humans building a society that’s finally fully democratic and rational?"
The robots were built by animals with large brains full of flaws and shortcomings. Thus, flaws will be inherent to the machines as the creators are flawed. A fully democratic and rational outcome would be more of a fantasy than the show already is. Forgetting that we are animals leads to this kind of idealistic disappointment.
1/6 was a revolution.
A failed one, but one attempt nonetheless.
Revolutions are never good for women and children. Ever.
Jeebus999 and Sir Toby II:
Thank-you. Believing in The Revolution is believing in The Messiah, with all its vices (e.g., justifying any barbarity in Its/His name, believing that it will work because People Will Be Different) but without the latter's excuse that it believes Omnipotence, Omniscience, and Omnibenevolence will be in its corner, so the former often tries to create a State so empowered….
And even if it were possible: would it 'make good television'?
It's likely comforting to believe that those who disagree with one are simply too stupid, blinkered, or bought-off to See The Truth—it eliminates the possibility that they may legitimately see things (or want things, or think things) different to what one does. That is to say: The "Westworld" writers may be perfectly able to imagine the better world C.M. would have them, just not think it credible or interesting.