Like a story can literally beat someone over the head with a theme or moral and people somehow come to the opposite conclusion?
It’s like “Tyler Durden is so manly and cool” except every bit of media feels like it’s misinterpreted like that now.
Like a story can literally beat someone over the head with a theme or moral and people somehow come to the opposite conclusion?
It’s like “Tyler Durden is so manly and cool” except every bit of media feels like it’s misinterpreted like that now.
That’s an interesting point I’ve never seen brought up before. I guess we’ll never really know how much of the silent generation watched Twilight Zone and their only takeaway was “huh, weird show” and then never thought of it again.
It could also be that the internet lets people stew on an opinion far more than they would’ve back in the day as well. Someone who didn’t like Twilight Zone and thought it was weird and offputting might have a brief chat with their coworkers on Monday about it, and that was it.
These days though, you could find a hundred video essays/rants complaining about how Twilight Zone is the worst thing on TV and a travesty and uhh…whatever 1960s buzzword they would’ve used instead of “Woke”. It’s much easier for people to get caught in a spiral of confirming their own opinion and making it into something much bigger than it needs to be than it would’ve been back then.
the word you’re looking for is “hippie”