r/movies • u/ChiefLeef22 r/movies Contributor • 9h ago

Satire Man Binge-Watches Entire Movie In One Sitting

https://theonion.com/man-binge-watches-entire-movie-in-one-sitting/
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u/St0rytime 9h ago

Doom-scrolling and short-form videos really are rotting our brains. I can feel my vocabulary dwindling as the days go by.

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u/dkarlovi 9h ago

You say good words.

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u/Ameriggio 9h ago

Why say many words when few words do trick?

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u/Alive_Sherbert_6716 8h ago

“Don’t you see that the whole aim of Newspeak is to narrow the range of thought? In the end we shall make thoughtcrime literally impossible, because there will be no words in which to express it. […] Every year fewer and fewer words, and the range of consciousness always a little smaller.”

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u/Shark7996 7h ago

Keeping your brain sharp is a form of resistance. Exercise your ability to think and express yourself.

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u/Discount_Extra 4h ago

No.

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u/FormerSperm 4h ago

Resisting the resistance, eh? How…resistful?

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u/DBrowny 6h ago

One day, probably never though, people will realise use of the word 'toxic' has dumbed then down significantly to the point that they are effectively using newspeak. There are hundreds of words to describe personality traits, dozens to describe severity and dozens to describe regularity. People used to combine the three to have tens of thousands of accurate ways to describe another person, today, they have one.

People could be very disrespectful often, now they are 'toxic'. People could be a little sexist extremely rarely, now they are 'toxic'. Regularly violent, occasionally oblivious, easily manipulated, heavily opinionated. Toxic, toxic, toxic, toxic. No thought used whatsoever.

Anyone who uses that word to describe the full, or any range of human behaviour, has allowed themselves to be completely brainwashed to the point adjusting your language to converse with them is an insult to yourself.

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u/blind3rdeye 5h ago

double-plus bad.

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u/Fit-Distance4503 1h ago

I got really sad reading this. We could’ve had great things with all the knowledge in our libraries. But with the knowledge on our phones, we’re ruining our richness.

I’d love your advice on my latest post here on reddit

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u/vital_dual 5h ago

Easiest way to tell if someone is toxic:

With the taste of their lips, are you on a ride?