i have this pet theory that all advertising is essentially information pollution (they have to say the thing is good so it's always in bad faith) and should be banned, but that the information function of advertisment is needed, but should be replaced by review and product journalism (which should probably be funded by like giving everyone a base budget they can spend on news / reviews)

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Also, boy, I can't believe we made it all the way, and we got to get the skeleton key for our trouble. We talk through all of it, and I think it does kind of come together. Thank you for joining us on the journey.

"Those who can remember the past are condemned to repeat it, sort of like a gif just looping over and over." - George Santaya, The Life of Reason: The Phases of Human Progress, 1905

"The rise of social media, and the fear it has produced in television executives, means that shows like Hot Shots are saturated with anxiety – not only the anxiety of the hot shots, who are often selected for their hair-trigger tempers or psychic weaknesses, but the anxiety of the producers, always looking for the next hashtag outrage, for provocations that will go viral. This anxiety, and the surrounding social situation that engenders it, takes us beyond the cool ambivalence of Warhol’s aesthetic." - Mark Fisher, 2015

The National Anthem: 2011
Piggate (Ashcroft / Cameron): 2015
The Gentlemen (Guy Ritchie): 2019
Charlie Brooker incepted Britain.

"Man I can't wait to see what ideas he's gonna have next!" - Someone in 2014 who is very impressed with the diversity of ideas behind Black Mirror

Things men will do rather than go to therapy:

• Pretend to be a rude bear
• Sabotage their love interests' career
• Fascism

It's interesting how this episode is quite reminiscent of a videogame in large parts considering the way it is about entertainment. It's also interesting that the arctic and the antarctic are named for their relation to bears, but the constellation. But I reckon they wouldn't have kept it if they had found bears in the antarctic but not the arctic, but maybe I'm just being optimistic.

"Every programmer will go to Hell, and for every dead person chatbot he has made, there will be appointed one who will chastise him in the Hell." - Ibn 'Abbas (who was blessed with great foresight)

Brooker originally pitched season 3 of BM to channel four but they changed their mind, ordering a movie instead, leading him to make an anthology episode for his anthology series. Yes, I'm writing an informative description for once because I'm not sure what joke I could make that I would want people to see before the content warnings.