About the movie Assassination Nation, part 1

Here comes some more commentary on social commentary. 

I want to begin by saying that I think that it’s important that we listen to each other’s experiences. Because ultimately, reality consists of nothing but subjective experiences. 

While I believe the movie was way too one-sided, politically correct and had an, admittedly intentionally, implausible story, I found it interesting in several ways. 

The story is about four teenage girls living in Salem (an obvious reference to witch hunts), where one of them gets accused of spreading half the community’s complete online data, sparing no juicy detail. This leads to the whole community wanting to kill them. 

I want to say something about the political correctness first. Because I’ve come to believe that we’ve allowed a society that is for neither common men, nor common women to emerge. And instead of listening to each other’s problems and trying to understand, it’s common that we trumpet our own victimhood, while belittling the victimhood of those that don’t belong to our group. The movie does not contribute anything meaningful here. It’s the same old “women and minorities are victims, while the problems of white men are only in their heads, created by themselves, or by the system that they are part of and benefitting from.” 

So, as I said in the beginning, I think that it’s important that we listen to each other’s experiences. Because ultimately, reality consists of nothing but subjective experiences. And I want to become better at listening to other people’s experiences. Even those that are not interested in hearing about mine. I think that this is where we have to start if we want others to listen to us. Because each of us have very limited information and understanding about the world, so our perspective on it is bound to be flawed.