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Absolutely. I don't know why I hadn't thought of this before. +1000, and all that.
It's worth noting that, just before The Prisoner, Patrick McGoohan starred in Danger Man,. a spy drama TV show, for which The Prisoner can be seen as a surreal sequel.
The Prisoner can also be found on Amazon Prime: https://www.amazon.com/Arrival/dp/B07F24RGLC/ref=sr_1_3?crid=1FJA9EJ4NS3UP&keywords=The+Prisoner&qid=1651512131&sprefix=the+prisoner%2Caps%2C95&sr=8-3
Be seeing you.
I get it! Not everything is for everyone!
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(I'm reminded of this book which sounds Rickeny but I remember it being really good https://www.amazon.com/Not-Everyone-Neither-Are-You/dp/1936891190)
if it makes you feel better, my xmas bonus at work once was a 20$ ralphs giftcard. another present i got a diff yr at a diff company were those party lights. something like this but instead of an array of colours, it was only green
I found this on Amazon:
I thought it was funny.
Station Eleven is amazing, and the Reddit community is a good one to support it. Also agree with Succession, The Leftovers. Maybe the first season or two of The Returned (the French version) has the same "unfolding" vibe. The first season of Westworld.
I think the idea is the severance process sort of detaches people from normal decision making. They're not in there with the context of memories to put the experience in. So there's no way for them to have a thought like "this is not in any way how an employer is supposed to discipline an employee."
To your second specific question, not exactly the most pleasant read but it's interesting:
On Killing: The Psychological Cost of Learning to Kill in War and Society
tl/dr: it's really, really difficult to get (darn near most) people to kill someone. People have a very deep innate psychological aversion to it.
Now that said a possible subplot of the show is the company is using the severance process to create people/personalities that are prone to violence. And there's definitely an idea there, cut people off from any notion of self, family, society, and maybe the aversion to killing is muted. But they're certainly not putting the office drones through that kind of training.
But mostly I think the answer is that the severance process makes it to where the people don't really even think of saying fuck you as an option. They are "born" the moment they show up to work the first day and don't have the grounding in life to do much other than what they're told.
Oh that’s awesome! I also heard it was based on a satirical self help book from Ben Stiller (director of the show) and Janeane Garofalo https://www.amazon.com/Feel-This-Book-Self-Empowerment-Satisfaction/dp/0345412931
I'm intrigued by this as well, and have been hung up on trying to interpret the final part of the intro sequence where it seems like a giant hypodermic needle siphons up the 'work product' of all the plus sign shaped work pods... as if whatever 'macro data' they are refining into product is something to be applied/injected as a drug somewhere else in some other person(s)..
I am still also open to the possibility that, because they don't actually show them get on the severed elevators, it could be that they are donning some kind of virtual reality kit, descending some virtual elevator, which is like a loading screen that we see as 'activating' the severed part. That could be why they don't 'really' eat, or can only eat the virtual food in the vending machines, not their own brown bag lunches, as pointed out elsewhere.
So perhaps they are all employed in indirectly training some kind of machine learning algorithm abstracted for their intuitive pattern recognition processes to detect... sort of using a staff of embedded 'mechanical turks' with their brain-computer interfaces plugged into an ML algorithm's workflow, to refine and tag data which is meaningful only to the outside world's ML platform.
As to the end product of that work, I like to think that their working on tagging the memories in Keir's 'brain in a jar', mapping his mind (or neural-link strength or some such) in order to resurrect him in VR, or something close to that.. after which perhaps they can inject Keir into a clone or just a random severed person, to 'embody' him as a member of the board of his weird/evil snake-oil soap company again .. :P
As described on amazon.com:
>"Essayist Matthew Arnold described the man who wrote these words as “the most beautiful figure in history.” Possibly so, but he was certainly more than that. Marcus Aurelius ruled the Roman Empire at its height, yet he remained untainted by the incalculable wealth and absolute power that had corrupted many of his predecessors. Marcus knew the secret of how to live the good life amid trying and often catastrophic circumstances, of how to find happiness and peace when surrounded by misery and turmoil, and of how to choose the harder right over the easier wrong without apparent regard for self-interest.
The historian Michael Grant praises Marcus’s book as “the best ever written by a major ruler,” and Josiah Bunting, superintendent of the Virginia Military Institute, calls it “the essential book on character, leadership, duty.” Never intended for publication, the Meditations contains the practical and inspiring wisdom by which this remarkable emperor lived the life not of a saintly recluse, but of a general, administrator, legislator, spouse, parent, and judge besieged on all sides.
The Emperor’s Handbook offers a vivid and fresh translation of this important piece of ancient literature. It brings Marcus’s words to life and shows his wisdom to be as relevant today as it was in the second century. This book belongs on the desk and in the briefcase of every business executive, political leader, and military officer. It speaks to the soul of anyone who has ever exercised authority or faced adversity or believed in a better day."
Well yeah. Except this card is 1/10 the size & can store 500 hours of HD video. So I’m guessing the card Dylan picked up has the capability of storing significantly more.
I’m not thinking the card is literally just a simple weird card with an attack move on it. I doubt most of this site think that either. Do you? Nor am I thinking the numbers on the screen just represent numbers.
The whole point here is that something else is going on. But you know. Maybe it is just a card. Although Lumon seemed pretty petrified it would get into the wrong hands. And we’re so worried they woke their guy up in the middle of the night to retrieve.it.
I was an IBM co-op (paid internship that's part of your university degree program) at their Austin campus and *Severance* has given me some serious flashbacks to working in that type of environment surrounded by its history/culture. Which first time I heard about the song I thought it was a joke, but had an old timer actually hum a few bars of it. There's an old book from the 90s about the "great days" that wouldn't surprise me if the production team looked at it.