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Just for those who have remarked that they live in Brazil. It's the movie Brazil that this meme is referring to.

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[–] [email protected] 27 points 22 hours ago (3 children)

This diagram would make the same amount of sense if you randomized the titles in it.
Maybe they're already random.

[–] [email protected] 14 points 19 hours ago (2 children)

Nah, I can see it.

  • 1984: they’re rewriting history / propagandizing
  • Idiocracy: the morons are in charge
  • Hunger Games: they’re pitting us against each other
  • Brave New World: they’re distracting us with entertainment

The others seem to fall pretty well into those categories.

[–] [email protected] 14 points 19 hours ago (1 children)

They're also rewriting history in Idiocracy (It's actually a key story element at the end).
"They're pitting us against each other" is one of the most important aspects in 1984.
And "They're distracting us with entertainment" is literally at the core of Hunger Games.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 18 hours ago

So it still works beautifully

[–] [email protected] 4 points 18 hours ago (1 children)

now explain brazil there, how is it om the 1984 and not hunger games

[–] [email protected] 4 points 17 hours ago* (last edited 17 hours ago)

Are you thinking of the film or the country?

The film has a large overbearing surveillance state / bureaucracy as the chief antagonist, it’s about the suppression of art and loss of human connection. Do you see it differently?

[–] [email protected] 6 points 19 hours ago (1 children)

I was wondering how Lord of the Flies fit in the Idiocracy circle.

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[–] [email protected] 8 points 21 hours ago

Yeah it's not really even a joke it's just for the clapter. If someone said to you "it's like we're living in a dystopian future" it would be the same level of humor as this post.

The only thing putting it in a four-way venn diagram added was to explain to the reader that the person doesn't know how venn diagrams work.