g r e y on Nostr: its weird how pop culture fiction has created an entire form of reality that's ...

its weird how pop culture fiction has created an entire form of reality that's increasingly disconnected from real reality. like the tropes that are in use in most pop fiction are simply not real things that happen. there has never been a psychotic madman trying to take over the world with a bunch of henchmen from a volcano like in james bond, let alone one every couple of years. an entire mountain of fiction and tropes and movies are built on other fiction to the point where watching a genre movie like that you have to enter an entire alternate form of reality utterly alien to how our reality works. and it's getting pushed further each day. like suspended animation a'la aliens does not exist, but so much fiction just assumes it does to the point where many people actually believe you can just freeze people on a space flight. it's this all-consuming metaphysical black hole of nonsense that has no relationship to our existence. this generalization from fictional evidence, as yudkowsky would say, has even more profound dangers -- one could argue that trannies are the victim of this alternative fictional reality, reading fiction (pornographic and otherwise) where sex changes are just magically things that can happen and are perfect, so they become the inevitable next logical step once the drugs stop hitting. how many of how we perceive the functioning of the world is just assumptions from growing up drowning in dumb badly written fiction?RT:

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quoting note1ycl…khaj

>robert zemeckis directing tom hanks where they de-age him with cgi
holy shit they really are desperate for gen x nostalgia views
being nostalgic for forrest gump
which was just a pure distilled boomer nostalgia orgy itself
i feel pop culture is approaching a kind of inverted event horizon where no new ideas can penetrate because they would have to go faster than the speed of nostalgia eating itself