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Maybe it’s because I’m extremely slow to process things, but so many of the skits/songs are such a perfect encapsulation for the current age that we live in like damn. He sorta just walks through how we’re basically already “inside” to begin with, considering the fact that the internet is ubiquitous, we do everything from communicating with our parents to dating to consuming (Amazon speaks for itself). And at the end he basically talks about how we’re past the point of no return so the only thing left to do is consume more content. And like the fact that it was released just shortly after COVID when being “inside” was the least we could do to slow the effects of a pandemic (and to no avail).

How is that not all super underrated? The guy has had his finger on the pulse of the algorithmic age since his early/edgy days but I mean he really fucking nailed it.

It’s extremely bleak though because a lot of normies in my life are looking at this Information Age as the next step in evolution where people must adapt or be left behind. But idk man I kinda miss talking to people in real life and having some kind of connection with the physical world shrug-outta-hecks

Gaaaaaaaa like I really fucking hate it. I don’t know anyone in my life who hasn’t met their partner on some sort of dating app and I truly think there was a way to establish some sort of balance

I hate living in a society fr

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[–] CarbonScored@hexbear.net 24 points 1 year ago (1 children)

That is how the world works, after all.

Burnham's been pretty canny since a few years after he got big. I remember an early interview with him saying "Me telling you to dream big and do what I did is like a lottery winner telling you to play the lottery, I was just lucky and the chances aren't in anyone's favour". I respected him since.

[–] stigsbandit34z@hexbear.net 11 points 1 year ago

He did have his problematic phase or whatever but I hope that time period isn’t enough to discount all of his ideas completely. And that’s a bomb and fucking real quote

[–] ItsPequod@hexbear.net 16 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Googling "derealization"

hating what you find

[–] stigsbandit34z@hexbear.net 9 points 1 year ago

Ahh collective and completely normalized derealization

What fun

[–] NewDark@hexbear.net 14 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I'd highly recommend this video essay from CJ the X. Inside runs deep. https://youtu.be/UvYcunuF3Eo?si=i_IPGVxuEjCL_qwm

[–] stigsbandit34z@hexbear.net 6 points 1 year ago

Played it in the background, and I guess I have a couple critiques-A big one being that they seem to talk about Elon musk’s bazinga brain device like it isn’t a gimmick and do the ole “fear of change is an evolutionary fear of the unknown”

Claim rejected because we have seen what oppressors are able to do with unchecked power and influence. Everything about AI/transhumanism or whatever is neoliberalism incarnate and certainly not a function of human nature like too many people think.

Problem is, there’s nothing that can be done to stop it at this point. Companies are integrating chatGPT into everything and they’ll slowly begin to layoff more and more people (expect more cop cities I don’t think it’s a coincidence that homelessness is being criminalized)

Anyway. Can’t wait for people rightfully concerned about the exploitation of this tech to get the “dummmy anti-tech guys who are against progress” treatment (i.e. Luddites).

[–] NewLeaf@hexbear.net 10 points 1 year ago (2 children)

I'm totally happy being left behind. I listen to 50 year old music, I watch shows and movies from when I was a teen, and I still love wandering the woods alone or with my wife and collecting rocks, foraging, smoking a Doobie...

I could spend the rest of my life in the woods with just my wife and a cat.

[–] HexbearGPT@hexbear.net 4 points 1 year ago

It’s scientifically proven: https://neurosciencenews.com/music-youth-17765/amp/

Personally, I try not to fall into that nostalgia trap because i like to keep new neurons being created/connected and enjoy variety/exploration, but i do get the warm fuzzies listening to music from my teenage/early 20s time of life. Enjoy the woods!!

[–] stigsbandit34z@hexbear.net 4 points 1 year ago

I watched the video linked below and kinda didn’t love it. Maybe I need to rewatch but it looks like that creator’s adopting the “adapt or be replaced” level of thinking, though it seems they mean well.

[–] HexbearGPT@hexbear.net 9 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

I absolutely love Inside by bo burnham. It’s really incredible. I watched it like 4 times when it came out. It captures that covid moment incredibly.

I hear ya about the alienation and loneliness of our current era though. It’s pretty fucked up… i don’t know how it ends either. Communion and collective interaction and activity is so essential to human life. And there’s so much less of it than there used to be. You have to really seek it out instead of it just being integrated into everyday life like it used to be. It’s sad.

[–] allthetimesivedied@hexbear.net 8 points 1 year ago (1 children)

My ex-friend loves Bo Burnham. One of my favorite memories is set to Welcome to the Internet, which makes me think of like, a happy little cartoon version of them.

Would you like to fight for civil rights or tweet a racial slur? Be happy, be horny, be bursting with rage, we've got a million couple ways to engage...

Tis a jaunty tuin indeed...

[–] OgdenTO@hexbear.net 6 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I really enjoyed "Inside". Also this is another interesting perspective https://youtu.be/pkuQ78xb-Fg?feature=shared

[–] HexReplyBot@hexbear.net 2 points 1 year ago

I found a YouTube link in your comment. Here are links to the same video on alternative frontends that protect your privacy:

[–] RyanGosling@hexbear.net 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I thought it was overrated because everyone here hyped it up. I watched it, and it’s just some rich Hollywood guy acting like he’s so isolated from his friends and family during the pandemic taking the red pill

[–] stigsbandit34z@hexbear.net 2 points 1 year ago

I mean sure he’s rich, but don’t you think it’s odd how most communists/leftists invalidate what rich people have to say about real issues right off the bat because they’re not Engels lol