Al-O-Meter
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Demolition Man is satire disguised as an action movie that predicted our society 40 years after the movie was made. We’re now 3/4th of the way to the 2032 setting of the film and the number of things it got right is almost disconcerting. It is more on point than Idiocracy.
In the film, the progressive agenda has become society’s monoculture. Everyone in society is monitored everywhere at all times and violations of hate speech laws called “violations of the verbal morality statute” are strictly enforced. Cancel culture is harsh with those expelled from society for nonconformity having no access to employment and forced to steal food or eat rats to live. Fear of disease has led citizens to never touch each other and for video conferences to be the norm for fear of exchanging droplets of biological material. Gender has been erased from society with clothing being gender neutral with most being loosely fitting so as to give no indication of physical secondary sexual characteristics. Transportation is primarily via self-driving electric vehicles.
Corporations have become all powerful and monopolistic with the functioning of government itself being dictated by the California-based technology company Cocteau Industries led by Dr. Raymond Cocteau. The progressive architect Dr. Cocteau sees nonconformist thought as more dangerous than violent crime. To stamp out the freedom loving and independent thinking “Scraps” that have resisted his progressive ordered society, Dr. Cocteau empowers a known violent element.
Despite the intellectual power and careful planning, Dr. Cocteau simply doesn’t understand how much more dangerous violent criminals are to a society than people who only want civil liberties, and the violent element the progressive empowered are what destroys him.
It is interesting that back in 1993 when this movie was released that it was obvious Dr. Cocteau was the villain. Even the murderous Simon Phoenix recognizes in the film how evil Dr. Cocteau is. Roughly 30 years later it seems that wisdom has been lost as our society cedes ever more power to the California technology companies to bring about a more progressive society that bares an eerie resemblance to the one in Demolition Man.
In the film, the progressive agenda has become society’s monoculture. Everyone in society is monitored everywhere at all times and violations of hate speech laws called “violations of the verbal morality statute” are strictly enforced. Cancel culture is harsh with those expelled from society for nonconformity having no access to employment and forced to steal food or eat rats to live. Fear of disease has led citizens to never touch each other and for video conferences to be the norm for fear of exchanging droplets of biological material. Gender has been erased from society with clothing being gender neutral with most being loosely fitting so as to give no indication of physical secondary sexual characteristics. Transportation is primarily via self-driving electric vehicles.
Corporations have become all powerful and monopolistic with the functioning of government itself being dictated by the California-based technology company Cocteau Industries led by Dr. Raymond Cocteau. The progressive architect Dr. Cocteau sees nonconformist thought as more dangerous than violent crime. To stamp out the freedom loving and independent thinking “Scraps” that have resisted his progressive ordered society, Dr. Cocteau empowers a known violent element.
Despite the intellectual power and careful planning, Dr. Cocteau simply doesn’t understand how much more dangerous violent criminals are to a society than people who only want civil liberties, and the violent element the progressive empowered are what destroys him.
It is interesting that back in 1993 when this movie was released that it was obvious Dr. Cocteau was the villain. Even the murderous Simon Phoenix recognizes in the film how evil Dr. Cocteau is. Roughly 30 years later it seems that wisdom has been lost as our society cedes ever more power to the California technology companies to bring about a more progressive society that bares an eerie resemblance to the one in Demolition Man.
