Very much the same. Watching my family, friends, co-workers become clearly different people as they went through the 'vexination' process was eery and they basically dissuaded me in their actions/behaviours/statements about the un-vaccinated.
I used to not have very much TV options growing up and watched tape recorded episodes of Star Trek TNG. There's an episode where basically everyone but Riker gets 'addicted' to this brain washing game (looks a lot like google glasses!) and he ends up 'alone' but still surrounded by all the people. I always found that the scariest thing. The parallels between the initial 'You should try this it's awesome' to 'we're tired of you not complying' to Riker being chased through the ship by all the rest of his former 'friends' trying to get him to try the brain washing game and the way the 'vexination' pressure from Society unfolded was incredible.
I owe that episode's writers a lot of thanks ... I would recommend it for those who watch TV and have 44+ minutes to kill. Stuart Cram
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Re: The Epiphany (A reflection thread on pandemic choices)
Date: 2023-07-22 02:43 pm (UTC)I used to not have very much TV options growing up and watched tape recorded episodes of Star Trek TNG. There's an episode where basically everyone but Riker gets 'addicted' to this brain washing game (looks a lot like google glasses!) and he ends up 'alone' but still surrounded by all the people. I always found that the scariest thing. The parallels between the initial 'You should try this it's awesome' to 'we're tired of you not complying' to Riker being chased through the ship by all the rest of his former 'friends' trying to get him to try the brain washing game and the way the 'vexination' pressure from Society unfolded was incredible.
I owe that episode's writers a lot of thanks ... I would recommend it for those who watch TV and have 44+ minutes to kill. Stuart Cram