-Sharing a soda with your friends.
That was gross anyway, so maybe that's for the best.
-Hulkamania. Because
Whatcha Gonna Do... When the Leaked Sex Tape comes after you.....
-And ironically enough, the movie
PCU.
Whose whole message of "Stop over reacting and just conform with us and you'll be fine" was lost to me as a kid, because the central characters are painted to be cool and who we're supposed to conform with. I
know people will say "But Obsidian, they were right! Look how run amuck these groups made life to be NOW!! This movie was prophetic!"
Well, I invite you to think about the movie deeper.
The Gay club was actually just there to be a joke. And I don't even remember what Tom did to piss them off so they were chasing him. But I have to suppose the actual club would have been in the college for Proper Gay Representation and support. PCU was released in 1994. Matthew Shepard was killed in 1998 for the crime of being gay. It took years to get to where Obama signed into law basic societal rights like marriage and the rest, and Trump is trying to roll that back.
The Black Power club is talking about the systematic oppression of Blacks from the government. And it's played that it's so overblown and farcical. Cut to 2020 where this population has it record that Blacks are treated unfairly, have their 'crimes' lied about or overblown, killed and beaten with regularity, and a quarter of this population is ready to go to war over the fact that it's ok that blacks are treated like that, or that it's a lie and we should fight to the death over a lie.
The Womynist... Harvey Weinstein.
And the main student 'antagonists', the Cause-heads. Who held a peaceful protest and had meat lobbed on them because... Lulz, how dare you care about something when I don't. But put that aside, the environmentalists who cared about animals and the earth. And Gee, what a healthy world we have now. We're getting a fire season that might be a annual thing that has destroyed cities, sweltering temperatures that are killing populations of fish (also known as one of the most tapped food sources on this planet), the ice caps, and including ourselves... and tremendously dangerous storms that are getting what the fires can not.
But they weren't painted as cool. The Pit was. And then they threw a party that made everyone else conform not to care and that would make the world better.
... Only... if you look at the real world... Yeah, every one of those groups were damn right to try to mobilize change. The Pit's mindset of not caring has gotten us to a breaking point.
But again. Doesn't matter. They were so cool, weren't they?!
The reason it shouldn't be made again in 2020 is that it would be wholly insulting to try to pretend that these issues didn't need tackling way before we got to this point, and that we should just chill out and smoke a bowl and it'll be ok.
As much as people try to pretend that it's the worst thing in the world, getting responsible with your message and your responsibilities in the world isn't some horrible censorship trying to kill fun... it's what Adults do. We're supposed to be Adults. This world and this society is in our care, so we're supposed to the best for all of it, not just what we want to focus on.
Because throwing a fit because you don't wanna and it's not fair or fun is what kids do. We were supposed to grow out of that a while ago.