How Carbon Replacement, Good Place, and Black Mirror explore eternal happiness

(Note: This article contains the main spoilers for Beautiful Place season 4, Modified Carbon season 1, and The Dark Miracle episode “San Junipero.”)

The myth is filled with images of hell. From Buffy the Vampire Slayer in order Local Event, writers and directors think about the horrors of chronic pain, and vividly demonstrate how that information can break the body and mind of victims.

Visions of the sky are rare. That is understandable, since fairy tales are often built on conflict, and there is very little of that traditionally defined in terms of peace and beauty. The Buffy spinoff He is an angel and Amazon Prime Video instances Good Omens Think of heaven as a sad thing compared to life on Earth, but some works take on the darkest idea of ​​eternal happiness. Matrix it would be expected that human minds would reject any paradise that had no form of suffering. And several recent TV shows have delved deeper into the imagination, researching the philosophical and cosmic validity of immortality, and how living forever can affect our sense of humor.

Delight in Eternal Life was one of the highlights of Season 1 of Netflix & # 39; s Modified Carbon, a cyberpunk show is set in a future where the very rich use a mixture of cloning and alien technology to avoid death. The secret is widely used to detect the illusion of going beyond, as power and wealth are permanently integrated into the hands of a few, while everyone is condemned by age and dies as humanity always is. However, the authors reiterate that even having everything will not save people from their circumstances.

After living for centuries, the Meths (named after the biblical name Methuselah) have worn the usual sweetness. As was the case with Frank Cotton in the middle Hellraiser, their dignity leads them to dark places. Season 1 features a party hosted by Laurens Bancroft, one of the oldest and most influential interviews. It shows decay and cruelty, including guests eating a white tiger, and is as happy as a married couple fighting until their bodies are killed. During a party game where each guest showed something different to bring to the event, one of the attendees revealed that he put the death of a prisoner's mind on the body of his pet, just to see what would happen. She laughs as she explains the brokenness.

Myths perpetuate moral boundaries when it comes to finding sexual pleasure. Laurens' daughter apparently enjoys having sex in the body of one of her mother's twins. Miriam Bancroft gives a man trying to seduce an opportunity to have multiple sexual relationships at the same time. Laurens himself enjoys sexual sadness, beating and sometimes killing prostitutes, and then making it a point by bringing their bodies back with improved versions. It is one way that the authors find the main theme of the exhibition is the imbalance of the evil power caused by wealth. Women consider this to be a fair deal, even if being killed is a painful thing.

Psychologists have noted something called hedonic treadmill, when something new and exciting can make someone happy for a short while, but in the end, they go back to their basics. Meths face a similar situation, looking for more exciting emotions as they age. The twists of Season 1 reveal that the high-end brothel offers Meth a chance to kill people completely, and that Laurens was drugged and persuaded to partake in this forbidden pleasure. Judging by what he has done, he realizes that he has lived a very long life, and that any future happiness he can achieve will pay dearly to others. The only solution was suicide.

Modified CarbonThe authors postulate that the sensual pleasures cannot be properly sustained more than ever. But what if the answer to sweetness is removed from the body? Season 2 briefly reveals that some people give up the physical condition of loading their minds into a physical paradise. This concept is only viewed as a one-episode clip, so it is unclear whether it is the best solution for the world of the world. But another show has explored the text in more detail: Charlie Brooker The Dark Miracle, episode “San Junipero.”

In the episode, the critically ill, completely paralyzed, and physically dead load their minds into the virtual realm. San Junipero is a party city where people can live in small, beautiful bodies, have casual sex, drink, dance, play games and go to the beach. As an episode The end of the song is clear, it was implied that heaven was created on earth.

And yet, as is often the case in public squares The Dark Miracle, technology has dark features. Doctors estimate how much time patients have to spend on doses, saying they can get lost if they spend too much time there. While Modified Carbon just into sadism, "San Junipero" explores the search for happiness in sadomasochism through Quagmire, a club that exposes slavery and people meeting or attacking one another.

The episode focuses on two women, Yorkie and Kelly, who meet and fall in love in San Junipero and discuss whether they should stay together when they die. You both don't believe in actual death, but Johnie thinks that real enjoyment is real and you should enjoy it. Kelly disagrees, and she has some evidence on her side. He points out that smoking does not taste like anything, and people who have been in San Junipero for a long time tend to pursue extreme emotions. He tells Yorkie, "Do you want to spend eternity no matter? You want to take a breath like all those lost Quagmire fossils trying anything to feel something? Go on."

One of the ways Yorkie pleads with Kelly to change her mind is that she can break up whenever she gets bored with their heavenly life together. That solution is also the core of the representation of the sky in which we operate Beautiful Place. That show presented with a focus on Eleanor Shellstrop, a selfish woman who accidentally strides into the celestial realm, then tries to be a better person to avoid being kicked. But by the end of season 1, viewers learn that he and the other main characters are actually in the Wrong Place, suffering from a new kind of psychological trauma.

The hedonic treadmill works both ways: people will also be sad when something bad happens to them, but they will eventually get used to the worst, and then return to their former state of happiness. Demons inside Beautiful Place

they had weapons of lesser torture and more serious abuses, such as butthole-spider and penis-flattening, but those tools have succeeded over time, leaving even abusers feeling bored and dissatisfied with their jobs. Against the backdrop of the notion that heaven is small in comparison to Earth, they decide that their ways cannot compare to a hell of no one, so they invented a way to allow people to torture eternally.

Michael Schur gave his series a humorous and uplifting tone, so his characters came together in unison and become better people. In the end, they find their spots in the Good Place, which turns out they have just a lot of problems in the Bad Place. After spending hundreds or thousands of years being given everything they could possibly want, people there have become “fun zombies” who have lost all the intelligence, curiosity, and ambitions they had in life. They never respond to the new arrival. Designers of the Good Place are trying to fix things by offering unimaginable fun, but their cases don't even know what they're asking for.

That's a good version of the problem shown in it Modified Carbon and “San Junipero,” and the solution is still the same. Good local vendors are given the opportunity to leave whenever they are ready. They have an eternity to spend time with their loved ones, learn new skills, or read silly novels. When all this happiness is lost in lust, they can simply move on to something else – a world of peace essentially derived from human consciousness. In the end of the series ending, the main characters of the show get all the excitement they could possibly want, and then seek to achieve the ultimate by taking one last step unknowingly.

There is a traditional Jewish myth about a king requesting a ring that will make him happy when sad, and sad when he is happy. His trusted adviser recognizes that no magic can accomplish this, but he solves the problem by bringing the king a standard ring with the message, "This will pass." It is a reminder that all pain and happiness is complete, as is the life of an individual. This truth can be both comforting and frightening, and that is what makes thinking about the possibility of eternity so fascinating and challenging. Presentations that are currently thinking about immortality, eternal happiness all conclude that the human mind cannot cope with chronic pain or eternal happiness, so we should try to make the most of the time we have.