Although I'm not a big television fan, lately we've been watching a number of streaming TV series, culminating with the Apple TV series "Silo" a few days ago.
I find myself noticing that an awful lot of programming these days seems to have a dystopian slant to it. That is to say, it seems more dystopian than it did when I was a kid. Of course, many of these are independent productions rather than network, which might offer up a wider range of allowable content.
Anyway, if it's not some post apocalyptic reality, we've got the fictional zombie apocalypse, we've got aliens taking over and destroying the world, or we've got the world ending from natural disasters and sometimes I just all find it a bit overwhelming and weary making.
I'm by no means some Susie Sunshine or Pollyanna for whom everything is roses and rainbows type of person, but the constant inference that everything is doom and gloom and we're all gonna die soon does get a little bit tiring after a while. Or maybe depressing is a better word than tiring.
Of course we don't really have to look much further than just the daily news to ascertain the very reality of this thing that is being portrayed by fictional sci-fi TV.
The world seems beset with conflicts, and wars, and social problems that feel like they have a more negative slant to them than I can remember seeing in a very long time. Or maybe I have just reached the point in my life where memories are filtered through the rose colored glasses of passing time.
I don't know if there is anything in particular we need to blame for this. Well, I suppose we can blame the Internet and the fact that the slightest negative news item that pops up is public property within 30 seconds of it happening, but I'm not sure that's actually an answer to anything.
Have we simply — as a culture, as a society, as a species — reached the point where we are moving closer to our own extinction, likely by our own hand?,
Or have we always been so obsessed with the end of everything?
When I was a kid, I do remember asking my parents where all the good news was, and the adults around me would mainly shrug or roll their eyes... so maybe nothing has changed!
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