• Hyperreality
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    9 months ago

    Cheer up, today will almost certainly be better than tomorrow.

  • @UnculturedSwine
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    59 months ago

    Oof, this hits home. Toxic happiness is a good way to make your kids suicidal, people.

    • @MotoAsh
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      59 months ago

      Good thing that’s 90% of American media.

        • @[email protected]
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          29 months ago

          I wouldn’t be even a tenth surprised to find out that the name of the later-made TV show was designed as a partial homage to that exact episode that preceded it.

          Though maybe not, as the concept seems to describe something deep in our psyches, and appears in so many shows & songs (e.g. R.E.M.'s shiny happy people), and I would bet that the Twilight Zone episode itself was either based on or at least was was preceded by some ancient story written or told hundreds of years before it:-).