DHMIS has materialism that lets us understand evolution, historiography, bourgeois dicatorship, all kinds of things. Mad God lacks any real critique like those PMC Extinction Rebellion hackfrauds, it's just idealist libs crying about "the soul of humanity is ROTTEN" (don't ask questions of how and why things ended up this way, it must be God who hates us!)

ep 5 also has a similar "rebel attempts to go against the system and gets vivisected by a lunatic surgeon" scene.

    • WideningGyro [any]
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      2 years ago

      Do NOT fucking watch it on LSD, I beg you- that would probably a very very /nothowdrugswork experience for anyone

      • sweepy [she/her,he/him]
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        2 years ago

        Ppl be out here thinking "this show is surreal and sometimes scary, LSD is surreal and sometimes scary, that means it would be a good idea to combine the two" lmao

        • came_apart_at_Kmart [he/him, comrade/them]
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          2 years ago

          haha, no shit. i never understand the impulse to watch disturbing media on hallucinogens. it's like some kind of topper b.s. just go for a chill walk and look at some trees and rocks under dappled sunlight. don't try to MKULTRA yourself.

          return to monke. :le-monke:

          • WeedReference420 [he/him, they/them]
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            2 years ago

            It's a bit like all the Vice 'articles' where they would have someone drop acid and go to, like, a monster truck event or right wing political rally and unsurprisingly it mostly just sucked for the person on acid. Great journalism.

        • CthulhusIntern [he/him]
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          2 years ago

          Not as bad an idea as my friend who thought of watching SAW while high on acid. He didn't actually do it, but that sounds like a trip you won't escape from.

      • CptKrkIsClmbngThMntn [any]
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        2 years ago

        I've already seen it, and done enough LSD that I bet I could, but I've also done enough LSD to know there are much better things to do than watch Youtube videos when I'm tripping.

    • ClimateChangeAnxiety [he/him, they/them]
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      2 years ago

      I watched the first one when I was like 13, but also now I’m a stoner weirdo who spends a not-insignificant amount of time on this site so maybe you have a point

    • RedDawn [he/him]
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      2 years ago

      So the kidnapper going “money money money” in the kickstarter videos appears to be a clear Jewish monster stereotype, but at the end the big bad guy was “Roy” all along who was overtly pretty much in the Christian cult in episode 3. I too am left wondering if the creators are fascists who think the ones polluting childrens mind with television for money are really the Jews, especially since the repeated imagery used to identify these usurpers is that of rats in the walls preying on babies. But, hmm then again Roy himself was pushing that very message and then he ended up being the culprit (and a capitalist).

    • axont [she/her, comrade/them]
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      2 years ago

      at the time I interpreted this as a commentary on corporate advertising and children's media playing up ecological concerns while being uncreative about it and counterproductive

  • SaniFlush [any, any]
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    2 years ago

    Mad God does one thing right- it shows the utter fruitlessness of the military-industrial complex. It's one artist's rage and sorrow congealed over decades, and is sadly limited by that man's own political knowledge.

  • frogbellyratbone_ [e/em/eir, any]
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    2 years ago

    did anyone ever watch salad fingers? i remember watching DHMIS and thinking it's puppet salad fingers tho more refined

    salad finger for those who don't know: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P_zbGGNI7lo

  • RedDawn [he/him]
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    2 years ago

    Where can I read more analysis about the message of DHMIS. Also where can I watch the new episodes for free if I’m in UK?