Our modern lives are overwhelmed with options. What to eat, wear, do, and consume—your choices are limited only by your means. But there is such a thing as too much choice, like when you have 400 cable channels and nothing to watch. This alegorical short from Bezalel school of visual communications grad Ofer Winter illustrates just a few such conundrums.
So a hobo came up to me on the street last weekend to bum a smoke and regale me with a tale of how his forefathers invented the television. This, of course, brought about an almost immediate 1920s surveillance state with Big Brother watching us as we watched The Honeymooners. The CIA, clearly, then exploited this system to "crash the Wall Street," cause the Great Depression and use the ensuing effects to more easily silence political targets. Compared to what you’re about to live through, my hobo’s drug-addled diatribe actually sounds quite reasonable.