Recently, I'm very disappointed Last Man on Earth has now ended.
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To me, one of the major players was the High School. Unless you are one of the rare people that really enjoys high school, it is an era of being oppressed, stomped down, and generally subjected to ritualized hazing endorsed and enforced by the State. Having a source of nightmares and demons and whatnot directly under the school not only makes perfect sense, but they build on each other, somehow making both worse. You aren't free. You cannot get away, you cannot quit, you cannot get out of the game. You are required to endure it and to prove your loyalty by regurgitating acceptable answers to stock questions. You are provided just enough information and education to be a minimally functioning pawn of the State, but any form of dissension to the indoctrination and brainwashing is "heavily discouraged," even outright mocked and used as a tool for humiliation by fellow "students" and even instructors. Of the characters, Cordelia was the only one who seemed to enjoy the environment, and that was because she was always on top of the social hierarchy pyramid. College is about being freed from that, becoming and being treated like an adult, being responsible for your own actions and the consequences for the first time. It is open and makes the world available. That inherently diminished the terror and danger over the last 4 years by taking away one of the key factors--the oppressive atmosphere. |