Imagine you woke up tomorrow and found out you’d been in a Truman Show dome your entire life. How would you feel about the fact that they made the Jim Carrey movie and put it where you could see it?

  • gandalf_der_13te@feddit.org
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    5 days ago

    actually i do sometimes think that life is in some sense a drama (theater stage), and what we perform is often at least as important as what we actually do in reality.

    i.e. there’s a whole lot of symbolic interactions throughout the day. for example every time that we speak to someone. it doesn’t change reality, but another person’s mind, so it’s a symbolic interaction.

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    7 days ago

    If I’d be honest, probably the first thing that I would feel is embarrassment, thinking that the thousand time plus that I beat the meat would look like the movie Shame from 2011

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    7 days ago

    Where’s my love interest? Why is everything setup to be so shitty in terms of geopolitics and the economy and such? And finally, the viewers better be laughing at my jokes at least.

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    7 days ago

    Well, anyone watching would already know I’m fucked in the head. So I doubt they’d be surprised when I went on a killing spree for having been violated like that

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    6 days ago

    Laugh at how much money they would have lost, my life isn’t interesting at all to watch, it would have been cancelled years ago.

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      6 days ago

      Imagine if they raised a person from a baby in a Truman show type of environment and he turned out to organically become the most racist sexist angry and unpleasant piece of shit.

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    6 days ago

    We are living it. Right now. Each and every one of us with a phone in our pocket. Except we don’t have paid actors doing the work. Everyone is volunteering to post everything that goes on in our world around us and broadcast it.

    “The man held the brightest star in the sky one morning. Then just went to work.”

    https://youtu.be/SlQtB9Xuxlk?is=OrtQTZf0G6mU4NX4

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    7 days ago

    I’ve always felt like the best lies have at least two layers. You think you’ve seen through something and can feel satisfied about it, so now you can stop looking. Otoh there weren’t people with “Truman Show psychosis” before that movie and there were after, so maybe it wouldn’t have been the best choice.

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    7 days ago

    I used to have same imagination in childhood. Interesting thought, and wish it would be so. At least that would explain why everything is turning dark…

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    7 days ago

    Too boring. Would have been cancelled when I was a boring little kid. Who’s going to watch someone play with Legos for 16 fucking hours straight?