Don’t Look Up, Do Look Forward: The Anniversary of the 2021 Insurrection, The Film, and The 2024 Election
On January 6, 2021, fellow citizens who voted for Trump and were convinced by Donald Trump that the 2020 election had been stolen stormed the capital. Chaos ensued, lives were lost, our democratic process was threatened and delayed.
Or was it just a tourist visit? Or maybe a televised Escape Room, complete with dress-up and the added break-in feature?
Got an opinion? Pick your party line. Feel righteous and rigid. Consume your flavor of what is called news. See what’s trending on X. Scroll through Instagram or lose an hour or two on Facebook. If you don’t know what to think, there are any number of people on multiple platforms that will tell you. “Like” a bunch of sh*t; the algorithm(s) will find you. And your people. Then you belong. And belonging is a human need.
Don’t Look Up, the Netflix film, was a satirical-to-camp commentary on planetary degradation and this American digitalized-political moment. It’s release during the pandemic and preceding the first anniversary of the lethal (and would’ve been more lethal) events at the White House on January 6th seemed timely. The film had all the necessary ingredients:
~masses affected by the digital revolution; AI the Mega-influencer
