A Boring Dystopia

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I am going to miss the mute and power buttons when they take them away. (www.telly.com)

submitted 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) by Ultragigagigantic@lemmy.world to c/aboringdystopia@lemmy.world

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Edit: I guess this post is free advertising for these shitters, so I will describe what I previously linked.

There is this TV you can get for free but it has a ads on screen constantly and it has a camera pointed at you to record your reactions to ads and to ensure you don't cover up the ad portion of the screen.

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[–] aleph@lemm.ee 4 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago)

Having said that, yes, the description does seem like the dystopian tellyscreens in nineteen-eighty-four. But they were mandatory for everyone, which is the main difference.

This is actually closer to Brave New World than Nineteen Eighty-Four. In the former, citizens voluntarily buy huge TVs to adorn their living room walls because their whole society is built around pleasure-seeking and entertainment. These displays are then used by the powers that be to distract and pacify the population, prevent critical thinking and reduce political unrest.