Oh, now our begins? Sending the army into politically opposed cities to kidnap people off the street and send them to another country wasn't the start? Inciting an insurrection to overturn a legitimate election wasn't the start? I wonder where the new start will be next month...
You don't know OP. Maybe he doesn't know history. Maybe he made a friend today who is a history buff and OP was curious why they're currently shitting a brick. Let's not assume the worst of OP, maybe they were born yesterday.
Sorry for not being able to travel back in time to the election and tell my past self to make this meme then insted of now.
Well lift your game lad, you only need 1.21 jiggawatts, a lightning strike will do the trick.
Or some plutonium from the store.
It started with the assassination of John F. Kennedy.
It was joever a long time ago but now even the blind can see it. 😔
It began soooooooooo long ago tbh
curious question: why do people tend to use this meme or show as if it portrays some form of documented history? i mean to say that i understand all the things atwood wrote about have happened but this image is, clearly, a simulacrum.
it gets the point across, sure, so maybe that’s why. but there are real examples to use, too, that i think people should be aware of.
i dunno. just rambling.
as if it portrays some form of documented history
I don't think people are using it in this specific way.
The answer is, the handmaids tale is popular fiction of today. I know the books are decades old but the TV show is what people have "experienced". Additionally, most people's understanding of history is poor.
My education was reasonably good, but we only ever learned about Australian colonial history. I mean we did learn about First Australian's history prior to European arrival but only briefly because not much is known. We also learned quite a lot about the suffering of First Australian's during (and since) the settlement era.
My point is, we did not learn about fascist governments outside Australia.
That being the case this meme is immediately recognisable and carries meaning, while something historic might not.
because the map has become territory. we're culturally unbound from reality (or at least trying really, really hard to fake it that way) and we're paying ever higher prices to maintain these fictions.
everything she wrote did happen, but what's really, truly important, is that we recognize the aesthetic and use that as judgement, apparently.
It's because The Handmaid's Tale puts it all into an American context, which makes Americans more receptive to the potential future.
for sure. i just wonder how often it makes the jump from “drama on tv” to “oh wait this is based on a real event…” and then “lemme research that.”
a silly aside but thats how i found a lot of classic movies: the simpsons. bart of darkness being a take on “rear window” etc.
Margaret Atwood never really made anything up in The Handmaid's Tale. Just set it in a collapsed USA.
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