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GReedDiamond

(5,311 posts)
Sat Dec 30, 2017, 01:55 AM Dec 2017

So, right before I woke up this morning, I had a dream about net neutrality...

...in the dream, I was in a room or office or such, and I heard a voice say "oh look, it's Ajit Pai."

Next thing I know, Ajit - who looks like a really young-20-something-Japanese-guy, NOT what the actual Ajit Pai looks like - comes up to me and sez: "Here, take this" as he hands me a packaged-in-a-plastic-bubble-black-disc which looks like a flat, circular refrigerator magnet about the size and thickness of a quarter.

He sez: "Stick this to your laptop" (I don't have one in real life, but I do in this dream) - "and it will play what you need to see."

The content from the black disc was a video of a woman sitting in a chair, in full left side profile, being stripped of her clothes by unseen forces - like powerful winds - and then it zoomed in on the left side of her face, which was covered by massive amounts of what appeared to be acne.

Not sure what it means, but it was fuckin weird! Kinda like a Dali crawling ants thing.

I usually don't remember my dreams, but this one was very memorable, in a disturbing way.

I did, however, think that a "digital magnet" device was a pretty cool idea.

Happy New Year.

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So, right before I woke up this morning, I had a dream about net neutrality... (Original Post) GReedDiamond Dec 2017 OP
Let's decode this ProudLib72 Dec 2017 #1
I like your interpretation (I posted mine at the same time, LOL) diva77 Dec 2017 #3
WoW! Thanks for that, because now I don't feel so crazy... GReedDiamond Dec 2017 #4
perhaps Ajit Pai is the evil face of the rethug party and the woman being stripped of her clothes is diva77 Dec 2017 #2
Yes, please see my post #4...nt GReedDiamond Dec 2017 #5
After I posted, I thought about something similar ProudLib72 Dec 2017 #6

ProudLib72

(17,984 posts)
1. Let's decode this
Sat Dec 30, 2017, 02:50 AM
Dec 2017

The woman sitting the chair being stripped of clothes is tantalizing. It's as tantalizing as the promise of the end of net neutrality making everything better. It's also a major distraction. It's only when you zoom in that you realize how horrible the end of net neutrality really is (when you are staring it in the face, so to speak).

There is another way to interpret this as well. Clothing is protection in the same way net neutrality is protection. Unseen forces are forces that are out of your control. The acne on her face can either be the damage that was inflicted by the repeal of net neutrality (the ripping off of the clothes) or, as above, the nastiness of a world without net neutrality.

GReedDiamond

(5,311 posts)
4. WoW! Thanks for that, because now I don't feel so crazy...
Sat Dec 30, 2017, 03:16 AM
Dec 2017

...this "dream" or whatever was very startling!

I totally agree with that interpretation.

So far...

diva77

(7,639 posts)
2. perhaps Ajit Pai is the evil face of the rethug party and the woman being stripped of her clothes is
Sat Dec 30, 2017, 02:51 AM
Dec 2017

representative of people, particularly women, being rendered powerless by tools like Pai; the horrible acne is the closeup to show how the dynamic of rethugs stripping away power from constituents is a disease that is spreading...

The disc represents the digitization of individuals -- we are each just a bunch of data.

The good news is that acne can be treated. Hopefully the disease of evil Rethugs can be "cured'


That's my take, anyhow --

ProudLib72

(17,984 posts)
6. After I posted, I thought about something similar
Sat Dec 30, 2017, 11:33 AM
Dec 2017

It's like sexual violence being equal to violence perpetrated on us by a government entity. The repeal of net neutrality lays us bare in front of the big corporations and ISPs getting paid to advertise their brands. The fact that it's a woman is probably down to the fact that all these harassment claims are floating around the news.

I like the idea of the disc being the digitization of people.

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