7 life lessons that we have learned from the series "Black Mirror"

1. The media can distract from the really important events

The first episode, entitled "National Anthem" tells the excess of enthusiasm modern people news.

Following the kidnapping of a British princess terrorists put forward the only requirement - the prime minister should live to mate with a pig. All attempts to deceive the kidnappers do not lead to success, and it fulfills the requirement. But it turns out that the princess was released before the start of the broadcast, not to harm her, but no one noticed it on the street. Everyone watched broadcast of sex on television.

Major mass media for a long time distract people from the real problems with loud news. It's easy to show the misdeeds of politicians talk about the problems in his life and in the economy of other countries, forcing people to overlook the shortcomings of his own life.

Before you succumb to the universal interest in a certain topic, consider whether it is so important for you to spend your time on it.

2. Events on television may be far from reality

In a series of "15 million merits," the protagonist of Bing gets aired a reality show Hot Shot (analogue X Factor or "Minute of Fame"). He wants to expose the creators of the program that led him to become a porn actress girlfriend. Threatening to cut his throat with a shard of glass, Bing says diatribe. But it is precisely this act even more raises the transmission ratings.

Since then, the character has been acting on TV, holding his throat the same piece of glass. But now it's an entertaining show, through which he earns money, saying allegedly sincere exposing society and television. After the end of each issue he carefully puts the glass in the case and is enjoying a life of luxury.

Exposing transmission article with loud headlines, promising to expose some famous people or companies may simply be an attempt by the authors to become famous. So they seek to create an image pravdoruba then to make on this.

Before believing such information, consider whether or not it is confirmed by some real action. After all, the protagonist of the episode, despite the constant threat, so never yourself and do not hurt.

3. The main punishment for the offender - to be in place of the victim

The main heroine of the episode "White Bear" Victoria wakes up without any memories and turns infected people into frightening society. She tries to escape, stop the spread of the signal that turns people into zombies, and even finds helpers. But still it is completely helpless against the surrounding world.

With the release of "White Christmas," two people at the station in the snow of the desert to recognize each other in their crimes. One of them named Matt worked up trying to digital copies of real people who have their own consciousness, and turned them into obedient slaves. Another man, Joe, was responsible for the deaths of two people.

The finale of both series shows that everyone gets a punishment commensurate with the crime. Victoria was an accomplice to the murder of a little girl and now day by day should experience the same feelings of helplessness and powerlessness experienced by the child before he died.

Matt comes to freedom, but now it is completely deprived of the opportunity to communicate with people. And Joe would always be alone, listening to the songs, to which committed the murder.

Every person who commits a crime, or to wonder, should understand that punishment is inevitable. At some point the criminal himself can be in place of the victim and to experience the same or even more intense suffering.

4. Love can not be played by the computer

A series of "I'll be back" raises the topic, all the more acute in recent years. After the main character Ash's husband was killed in a car accident, Martha recreates its image through artificial intelligence. First, they exchange messages, and then it turns into an android, in which are placed all the memories.

New Ash copies its prototype of virtually everything. In many ways, he was even better than the original, because it has a sweet temper. But Martha could not take an android as a living person and finally locks it in the attic.

This story makes you wonder, what is a person. You can completely preserve memories, copy the voice and even appearance. But you can not create affection, because people love each other for something else.

So do not think of the man as a set of physical parameters or memories, and even more to try to replace it with someone, or something similar.

5. We have become too dependent on social networks

Episode of "Dive" is about a world where people put each other estimates using instrumentsSimilar to modern smartphones. From this ranking it depends on whether a person is able to get into the elite society, living in a prestigious building and even to buy a plane ticket. People with low scores are marginalized, because even a friendship with them reduces your own rating.

Stars Instagram, have become popular due to the number of subscribers, the desire to be friends only with people of the upper classes - all this is a real reflection of the fictional story. Chasing estimates from strangers and creating an artificial image of the Internet because of the desire to improve their social status of our world closer to the one shown in this series.

6. Shock therapy in the elections could become a reality

In the episode "Moment Waldo" one of the presidential candidates in the election becomes a bear Waldo - animated character comedy show, which voiced shy comedian-Jonah. Waldo founds his campaign on the fact that crude jokes and mocks all the other candidates, but that is what gives him high ratings and winning the election.

This episode could have stayed a funny irony of the fact that people are too tired of the constant lies and promises during the electoral race, if it were not held last year, the US presidential election. Many analysts have compared the presidential campaign of Donald Trump with this episode.

This is not an episode. It is not marketing. This is reality.

Twitter-Account "Black Mirror" in the US presidential election night

7. You can not always believe what you show

In "People against fire" in military postapokaliptichnom world are destroying monsters-mutants. At the head of each soldier an electronic implant is embedded. It creates erotic dreams, but in reality it helps to navigate the terrain and fight better.

Soldier with a damaged chip detects that actually mutants - are ordinary people, and see them freaks make implants. And the world also looks quite different, as it seems with a working chip.

Let people more massively built into chips head, but the influence of various media on the most equally large. It is easy to get the crowd to be considered enemies of some social category or population of a certain country, and also to show the world is not the way it really is.

Sometimes it is very important to break the absolute perception of the world through television and the internet and look at things in their own critical eye.