everyone saying black mirror NO the whole point of black mirror is that it’s rife with unwanted morals! no! i don’t want to be told how technology is making us distant and how helicopter parenting makes kids hate you i want “what if astronauts found their own dead bodies on a random planet and had a breakdown for a full episode then realized they’re dead for real and then forget and do it all again forever, wouldn’t that be fucked? i’m rod serling”
ive probably said this before but i LOVE the twilight zone episodes with no quantifiable moral at the end, they just wrap up like “wouldnt it be fucked up if that happened?”
There truly is no better euphoria than eating shitty beef jerky and pretending you’re on a long journey and rationing what little food you have left that will last in the wild. You look out over the horizon at a mossy stone that is much too stiff to serve as a bed, and plant yourself directly upon its welcoming hearth. You gulp down mouthfulls of stolen rum faster than you should. You swig the last dregs of clean water as carefully as you would a fine whiskey. Your preferred campfire shines silver through the leaves above you, and for a moment— no more than a moment— you could believe the stars had abandoned their inky sheets to lie aside you on the forest carpet. Clouds rolling by shatter the illusion, and your stars have been put back into their beds, and it’s only you again; only you, a rock, and your shitty beef jerky.
