Handmaid Tale Thread

[Rafael Thundercat]

For those who watched or are watching this serie. I just Started and I am reading The Caliban and The Witch together with watching it. 

Also I am watching some YouTube Analisis of this series.

The series touch a various array of topics many of those we discuss here about Politics,Human Corruption, Cults,Religion, Bias. 

And from the analysis of this video about how the Gilead Republic works we have the topic of Hypocrisy. The Hypocrisy we see in the Christianity circles.

"Hypocrisy is largely unconscious. The hypocrite’s mind is not self-aware enough to see its own hypocrisy. When the hypocrisy is pointed out to it by outsiders, the mind is caught by surprise because it saw no hypocrisy there. So the mind gets defensive and tries to rationalize away the hypocrisy rather than owning up to it. Mind is so vast, subtle, and hairy that its hypocrisy goes unseen, because it is hard for the mind to keep track of all of its positions and beliefs. It is easy to see hypocrisy from outside, it is very difficult to see it from inside. The mind does not have conscious access to all its positions, utterances, and beliefs at once. Thanks to this, hypocrisy has plenty of room to hide in the shadows of the mind. Being a hypocrite is automatic, by default, unconscious. Not being a hypocrite requires lots of self-reflection, which is tedious, boring, and threatening.

The more conscious I become, the more hypocrisy I see in myself. It is unpleasant to catch one's own hypocrisy because one doesn't think of oneself as a hypocrite. Seeing one's own hypocrisy is ugly, but it is healthy because you can't fix what you can't see.

Edited yesterday at 05:31 PM by Rafael Thundercat

[Rafael Thundercat]

Remembering that Handmaid Tales was a book Banned from US schools..

 

 

 

Edited yesterday at 05:45 PM by Rafael Thundercat

[Rafael Thundercat]

I like to watch the Negacionists as well.

well, lets forgive her, she is young. If the Tale would become reality one can know to what side she would be part of.

 

[Rafael Thundercat]

In the series is good to notice that women comply with the Gilead Republic

 

 

[Natasha Tori Maru]

The series was harrowing.

I enjoyed season 1 - but I disliked how they made Jane a "Mary Sue" type character in the later seasons. The concept was great for the first season.

I haven't read the novel, but it is on my list. Many people I know couldn't watch the series due to how confrontation it was - EG rape, autonomy removal etc. 

Edited 12 hours ago by Natasha Tori Maru

[RickyFitts]

4 hours ago, Natasha Tori Maru said:

The series was harrowing.

I enjoyed season 1 - but I disliked how they made Jane a "Mary Sue" type character in the later seasons. The concept was great for the first season.

I haven't read the novel, but it is on my list. Many people I know couldn't watch the series due to how confrontation it was - EG rape, autonomy removal etc. 

*June.

[Ulax]

Great show.

An example of a show with strong green messaging done well.

Though people go over-the-top with what they take from it.

[Basman]

The dems won but they didn't win so hard that I'm going to start watching musicals