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A collection of some classic Lemmy memes for your enjoyment
A still from the movie Demolition Man in which some police officers prepare to confront a character played by Wesley Snipes.
Top Text: Demolition Man: A movie which depicts a horrifying dystopia...
Bottom Text:...in which food is too healthy, bidets are common, and cops literally don't know how to assault a black man.
Bidets?!
This guy doesn’t know about the three shells!
Apparently it's canon that you use two like chopsticks to get most of the poo and the third scrapes the rest off.
A bidet would be great compared to that.
psh this dude hasn't used the three shells
The idea of demolition man cannon makes me wish for a demolition man extended universe, hopefully with a crossover with Judge Dredd
gross to read, thank you
If the three sea shells discourse isn't a stand-in for 90s Americans' anxiety about bidets then I don't know what is.
3 mysterious sea shells... you think 3 dry sea shells (which most people understand logistically would be impossible to clean yourself properly with) was a stand in for bidets?
I was also around when the movie came out and not a single human i interacted with imagined they were a bidet. In fact bidets were so uncommon in the US at the time that most Americans experience with them was from the movie Crocodile Dundee.
Everyone's problem with the sea shells was that you wouldn't be able to clean yourself properly when you imagine physically using them. But people in the future they imagined have extremely small and limited diets, they probably don't produce an huge amount of waste. There's only 1 fat guy in the whole movie, and you wonder how Othoo from Beetlejuice got that way on taco bell protein pellets.
IF they had introduced the concept of a bidet system, it would have immediately removed the mystery from the sea shells and made them far less intimidating.
The supposed utopia is modeled after the ideal of suburban USA. That's pretty fucking dystopic. Add to that tge prohibition of kissing, sex, Rock music, etc...
I think someone didn't watch or utterly misunderstood the movie.
Comrade, I rented that movie from a locally-owned VHS rental shop that used physical membership cards.
Sure it's a dystopia, but it's a dystopia where they solved too many problems. John Spartan gets into a high speed car crash and his car instantly fills up with safety foam and he's completely unharmed. The police force is ethnically and gender diverse. Guns are museum pieces. The cops don't know HOW to assault somebody.
Sure they've killed a large amount of choice, and the guy in charge of it all seems to be determined to secure even more power for himself because of course he's a sociopath with Mr. Rogers' speech patterns, but all told I'd much rather live in the Demolition Man future than Judge Dredd or Death Race 2000.
but all told I'd much rather live in the Demolition Man future than Judge Dredd or Death Race 2000.
But all the dystopian elements is not necessarily the price for the improvements. The message of the movie (to me) was "don't get fooled by some shiny surface when the core is rotten."
And your choice is not between "bad" and "worse". We can imagine even better futures (Star Trek Federation citizenship seems to be pretty neat (if you're not trying to settle some fringe worlds at the cardassian border) for example), so we can work on these.
the guy in charge of it all seems to be determined to secure even more power for himself because of course he’s a sociopath with Mr. Rogers’ speech patterns
If the right people don't have power do you know what happens? The wrong people get it!
Ngl, digital tantric neural sex link seems pretty fuckin' rad.
I guess they left out the part where it implants Taco Bell ads, mines your subconscious for thought crimes, and sells the data so people can have virtual sex with your likeness. Less rad.
Well there was that entire underground society.
But the underground society seemed to be more about finding their own version of freedom rather than outright exclusion.
In a world with super aids they still wanted to raw dog it.
Rat burgers
Rat burgers
With a great food spot too.
Demolition Man is what Europe will look like. USA will look like The Running Man (1987 version, not the remake).
**EDIT: The movie is 'The Invasion' (2007)
There was a sci-fi movie 20 years ago about an alien intelligence taking over world governments, replicating itself into human hosts via inoculations for a 'virus', and as the movie progresses world peace is achieved, but the protagonists fight against it over fears of losing free will.
And I'm over here like... the aliens are the bad guys?
That's basically the plot of Pluribus
Just started that one, Carol sucks. Enjoying it so far.
It's only a utopia for wealthy vegans that love Taco Bell (or Pizza Hut if European). All the poor meat eating people are forced into the sewers and eat rat burgers.
Also what bidets? They had a shelf with 3 fucking seashells. They never mention bidets.
Also what bidets? They had a shelf with 3 fucking seashells. They never mention bidets.
Guess what this guy doesn't know.
But if you flush the Seashells then there wouldn't be any more??
You would not ask about the 3(very specific number) Toilet Paper pieces if there was a roll of hundreds.
one thing I remember about that movie. walmart grew so big it bought everything else. all stores are now Walmart. and all restaurants are taco bell.
Taco Bell won the fast food wars.
Reminds me of the TTRPG Shadowrun. Sometimes its hard to sell the corporate dystopia when you're describing eating & drinking soy products because meat is prohibitively expensive and they can sell the effect of dubious cash crops like coffee and chocolate with a soy based alternative.
The shadowrun 5e rulebook actually allows someone to live in a small one bedroom appartment on a part time job, we are so far past what used to be considered dystopia.
Remember how there's also a giant second city underground that's barely scraping by, and the people running the utopian city are trying to eradicate them? Yeah, not a very bright take on the movie.
Don't forget that moist virtual action!
This ia what cybersex should actually be like, tho.
And fuck the movie The Fan starring Wesley Snipes. Demolition Man's the only Snipes movie I like.
If you glaze over all the shitty parts about the "dystopia."
Who said it was a dystopia?
Denis Leary
Edgar Friendly.
It was designed to be the worst future for anybody who used "woke mind virus" and means it.
It was loosely based on Brave New World. Although in BNW everyone was fucking all the time and on drugs. Also no one was frozen and there were much fewer gun fights.
BNW was about encouraging hedonism to control the population. Much of demolition man was about suppressing all of that, combined with excessive political correctness through government overreach.
They get fined for cursing. Tons of stuff that doesn't harm anyone else is banned. The government is overbearing and controlling, brainwashing everyone into meek conformity.
It looks like North Korea propaganda.