• hopesdead@startrek.website
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    13 days ago

    I saw my mom watching The Handmaids Tale today. It made me think, are we slowly transforming into Gilead?

    FYI, I know Gilead is United States. I read the book.

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      13 days ago

      That was the first thing I thought watching it. Eerily too close. Makes it a bit more difficult to be entertained by it.

      Oh also, apparently Elisabeth Moss is a Scientologist. So, eck. Unsure if I’ll continue.

      • Hemingways_Shotgun@lemmy.ca
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        6 days ago

        That was the first thing I thought watching it. Eerily too close. Makes it a bit more difficult to be entertained by it.

        I’m not convinced that someone at the Heritage Foundation didn’t read the book and think EUREKA!!! It’s too on-the-nose for it to be a coincidence.

        Or Atwood is a time-traveller and that’s why she has a secret book in a time capsule to be opened in 100 years. On the day of it’s opening, she’ll pop up in a surprise since it’s before she travelled back in time, thereby closing the paradox loop.