What ‘Think Before You Post’ Really Means
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Way too true.
But memetically speaking, I always feel like this meme needs to be inverted.
THe guy sees the false reality while wearing the sunglasses - a metaphor for the brainwashing and gaslighting that the Mockingbird Media etc have groomed citizens to wear, day in day out.
But when he takes them off, he sees the reality with his real eyes. His true eyes.
You don't need a special set of lenses to see the truth. You need unfiltered direct sight to see the truth, and they try to block this (by manipulating the population into wearing the glasses.
But I dunno. Maybe in the original film, he needs a special set of glasses to see reality? I prefer to see with my real eyes, and not their lenses. So, in terms of our current world, the metaphor of taking off their lens works better, I think. Even though that might be at odds with the original context.
Excellent meme, tho. Typical WBC.
The only problem is that doesn't work for people who are familiar with the origin of the meme, the movie They Live, about a world that has been taken over by aliens that hide all their control in plain sight and the only way to see the truth behind it is to wear the special glasses, that is until the end when the main characters destroy the control mechanism and cause a great awakening, exposing everything to everyone.
Yeah. True.
So, context is the key, and for those that are familiar with the origin, the meme works well (I suppose).