terrifying when you watch a movie or a show or whatever & youre like that was fun but it felt a little redundant they didnt need to hammer the point home that much & then you go online & theres thousands of people going that was so weird i did not get it what did that mean google.com ending explained please?
Okay I was thinking about kinda this earlier today. People who expect to be spoonfed meaning and a moral message from media are treating it like the two things that actually do those things: children’s books and religious sermons. (I say sermons and not religious texts because those can be interpreted about 5000 different ways)
So yeah people spend their whole lives basing their belief system around a book that maybe they haven’t even seriously read and they’re just listening to a dude quote passages and summarize stories and then explain exactly what it “means” and how this thing that may or may not have happened 2000 years ago “applies” to your life. And then they go to the movies and there’s no dude who pops up at the end to tell you what it meant so they go to google looking for answers because that’s what they do in their own life when they have a question, they go to their pastor instead of actually figuring out what they think the correct course of action is or how they feel about it.
