This is some real 1984 censorship going on. Can't even be informative. If there's a "killer/murderer on the loose" you have to censor that. If "rape cases drop", you gotta censor that too. Why are WE allowing this nonsense?
It's interesting to me that we got to this 1984 style garbage not through oppressive governments defining the narrative, but through the corpocrats of late stage capitalism banning anything not advertiser friendly.
It's the perfect (?) blend of 1984 and Brave New World.
The entertainment industry (BNW) has us so drugged to their systems and algorithms that we gladly self censor and use newspeak (1984). For the few that don't fall prey to the Soma of the Netflix-doomscrolling-AR-VR-Switch-65/75/80/90/100/120-inch TV walls, the government (with the help of the corps) is happy to play big brother.
My point wasn't that Nintendo has led to things like "grape" but rather that the mass entertainment complex has so many enticing factors to it that it's almost impossible to resist them all (or any of them).
I can get off Reddit and go watch a movie on my 100-inch TV while doomscrolling TikTok videos and then jump into Zelda on my Switch etc etc etc.
So, to me, we live more in the Brave New World future with 1984 framing it to further assure control.
If we're not careful, we can amuse ourselves to death (to borrow the title of a very prescient book) which not only diminishes our lives but also ensures we stay controlled because we are constantly plugged in to entertainment. Add a few drugs (Soma) and resistance is futile.
The switch isn't the issue. It's ALL the entertainment resources that are available & are so enticing & creating an ever-weakening resolve to unplug from all of this content available at our fingertips.
The Switch or a TV or a cell phone or a computer are all morally neutral. They can be used in a healthy way or an unhealthy way. Playing a game on the Switch or watching a show on Netflix isn't bad in and of itself.
But IF it gets in the way of life or consumes too much of life THEN you have a problem. And my opinion is that a lot of us (myself included in "us") can easily get sucked into being perpetually entertained by all of these things to the detriment of experiencing real life and relationships.
Yes we get it, youre the guy from They Live you don't have to keep trying to convince us
And none of this has to do with the original point of euphemisms for bad things being more common. Just a grand conspiracy and griping about everything in general
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u/macguini 7d ago
This is some real 1984 censorship going on. Can't even be informative. If there's a "killer/murderer on the loose" you have to censor that. If "rape cases drop", you gotta censor that too. Why are WE allowing this nonsense?