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asurrogateblog · 7 months ago

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this week while once again thinking too hard about how the lyrics to "in the flesh?" are secretly an unreality content warning I went down a rabbit-hole that led me to discovering a (completely unrelated) british reality tv show from 2005 called "space cadets", in which a group of unsuspecting people are convinced that they are going to orbit the earth on a russian rocket when really they're just in an abandoned field in ipswich. the hoax is so convincing that at one point one of the actors they planted forgets that NO FUCK NO AGAIN????!!! Fuck. I'm watching an upload of this show on youtube rn and I swear to fucking god as I'm typing this a voiceover comes on saying "up next: the killer of a working class hero speaks out on: I Killed John Lennon" go AWAY can I have ONE moment of peace PLEASE

#this is the second time he's interrupted a pink floyd post in the last month #ANYWAY #what I was GOING to say #was something about how it's interesting how in both cases (the wall ans this TV show) the term 'space cadets' is used blatantly #but in each context no one thinks of the definition 'person who is out of touch with reality' and assumes another meaning #because they have no reason to be suspicious until it is already too late.#and in both cases even people 'in on it' make incorrect reality judgements.#like how that time the venue started on fire they couldn't get half of the audience and even some of the stage crew to take it seriously #and I just think thats neat.

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