People’s everyday life is summarized in pedaling to earn merits, feed, buy objects, watch TV shows and sleep. It is possible to do some analogies around this everyday, because the act of spending the day pedaling on ergometric bikes reminded me of a term that was popularized in the book: “Rich father, poor father” is the “race of the Rats” this term “events the image of Useless efforts of a lab rat trying to escape running on a wheel or around a maze. In an analogy with the modern city, many mice in the same labyrinth Expende an intense effort at random, so that they do not achieve any collective or individual goals. ”
The show business exhibited in the daily life of those people reminded me of the fifth mass manipulation strategy of Noam Chomsky which is “infantilizing the public”: “The goal is to overcome the resistances of people. It is one of the strategies of mass manipulation that seeks to neutralize the critical sense of people “. “Many of the messages on television, especially advertising, tend to speak to the public as if they were children. They use gestures, words and attitudes that are reconciled and impregnated with a certain aura of naivety. “ In addition, it is also up to here the first strategy of mass manipulation that is “distracting the public” which “basically consists in directing public attention to irrelevant or banal topics. In this way, they keep the minds of busy people.
The behavior of the character Bingham “Bing” Madsen reminded me of the prisoner who came out of the cave in “Allegory of the Cave” by the philosopher Plato, but that when trying to convince the other prisoners that that world is an illusion, it is not understood by them, for they are are so conditioned that they don’t even doubt that the shadows projected on the walls of the cave are reias.
The behavior of the Abi character is interesting to be analyzed and worth leaving a question: “Why do we always believe that most are right about what is best for us?”. This question does not intend to develop in you a feeling of pride, but for us to reflect that people like Jesus Christ did not have the support of the majority, but was right in many of his actions. Moreover, most were in favour of the slavery regime, which today we see as one of the greatest mistakes of mankind.
PS: The episode: “Fifteen Million Merits” was critically acclaimed. The series: “Black Mirror” reveals more about the contemporaneity than the futuristic proposal tries to warn us.
Rodrigo Santana Costa is a teacher and writer. He published the work: “Clarecer” in verse and prose.
