Tonight's Max Headroom is "Security System."

I remember watching this when it aired. The next day my English teacher talked about this, and specifically this scene. He predicted that if nothing changed, we'd have this kind of nightmare in ten years. That would have been 1997.

It's 2023. We're not there yet. But damn, we are close.

It wasn't too much later that that same English teacher sat us down and taught us about propaganda techniques as it applied to commercials of all thing. All the tricks and tropes on how not to be swayed into being Happy Little Consumers and how to be critical thinkers.

I like to think he helped us out into being slightly smarter than we would have been had we not had an hour of "what to look out for."

https://www.youtube.com/watch?app=desktop&v=KaSJGmJzTn4