5th November 2020
The second episode of Don't Hug Me I'm Scared critiques two things. First one of them is the use of time as a tool to control and subdue societies. The second is the highly propagandistic view of our past, present and future. Here's a step-by-step analysis of the video.
0:05 – The puppets are idly waiting for the TV show. Due to television shows, children have been loosing their ability to creatively play on their own.
0:19 – There's not enough time! – the little duck has already been brainwashed into believing that time is so important.
0:47 – It's time to have a bath – just imagine a kids' show, where a talking clock tries to teach children that certain actions have to be undertaken at certain time. You should not take a bath at quarter to nine. You should take a bath when you're dirty.
0:59 – The yellow puppet is being hypnotized by the clock's words.
1:09 – The word time is said many times. That's typical behavioral conditioning. Just repeat something a lot and people will remember.
1:18 – The Victorian times are villified and presented as dirty, disgusting, poor and just terrible. That's part of the propaganda we're under in the West. The past is constantly said to have been terrible, because people didn't have computers and McDonald's, but people were generally more connected with other people, with God and with nature.
1:30 – The tree dies, the apple rots. The propaganda in children's shows never address the negative aspects of a phenomenon. They will tell you how important is time, but they won't mention that time destroys everything.
1:44 – There's a time and place for mucking around - Time is heavily controlled by the state and its institutions. The state imposes time on people in order to control and manage them. Just think about holidays, vacations – you don't even know what day of the week it is, because it's not necessary. The clock teaches the duck that he can't have fun, because it's not the right time. Children are taught that most of their time actually doesn't belong to them.
2:03 – It's the future – The second part of the propaganda that we're under is the utopian idea that technological progress in the future will solve all the human problems and we will transcend our species and become God. It does seem that technological progress is the main value of the world, as no matter which country you consider, they strive as mad for technology. And time is a necessary institution of control to keep the social machine ticking.
2:11 – The future and technology is not exclusively good. The invention of the internet was amazing, but it enabled pornography to destroy our minds (look at what the yellow puppet's dad is watching).
2:20 – It's fish everywhere – time is a meaningless, made-up construct. There's never the right time to do a thing. You can do the thing anytime you wish. Don't let anybody tell you that you have to eat at 8:00 and sleep at 22:00 (I'm not questioning the importance of a stable circadian rythm).
2:32 – When did it start? When will it stop? – The clock ignores the questions, because time didn't have a beginning and an end. Only things that exist have a start and an end.
2:40 – The puppets start questioning the importance of time, and the clock goes postal. Noone is allowed to know that time actually is just an illusion of human perception. Also, please note the swastika equation. DHMIS suggests that science is implicated in fascism and societal control. According to Max Horkheimer, every theory created by the scientists will most probably be used by the state, as it has the most resources. And, most probably, the theory will be used towards a destructive end.
3:00 – Time kills the puppets. As I've said before, the negative aspects of phenomena are never presented in kids' shows – that's a thing that's often shown in DHMIS.
Do not stop keeping time. Order your whole life around the made-up numbers watched by the state. We're running towards a future that will set us free. Just don't think. Run.
Don't Hug Me I'm Scared is not the only satirical commentary on our pathological relationship with time. Please take a look at George Carlin's bits on that topic, or Pink Floyd's Time.
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