{"id":317,"date":"2022-01-13T00:54:15","date_gmt":"2022-01-13T06:54:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/oddlysincere.com\/?p=317"},"modified":"2026-03-08T12:54:01","modified_gmt":"2026-03-08T17:54:01","slug":"max-headroom","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/oddlysincere.com\/?p=317","title":{"rendered":"Max Headroom"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Wait until you have about 30 free minutes, and then watch (and listen to) this YouTube video<\/a>. After that, read the rest of this post.<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n

I feel I have to mention something, but it’s going to sound like I’m speaking derisively about “those millennials”. I’m not<\/strong>. The only reason I bring it up is to say I’m completely in agreement<\/em> with what he’s saying, and I won’t be taken seriously unless I mention the “discrepancy”. The script is written with the implication that speaker shared some blame for this. However, the sound of the voice says something completely different. I don’t know (for sure) about you, but it sounds to me like it’s spoken by a man who’s about 20 years younger than me (and about 40 years younger than the people who designed Max Headroom). <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Did I laugh at Max and miss the blatant subtext in the late 80’s? Yes. However, I argue that someone who didn’t live<\/em> it can’t know<\/em> the following… That’s just the way American society was<\/em> then. Max Headroom was popular not only<\/em> for the reasons implied by the video.

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I’m of a uniquely “in-between” age: old enough that I was very much “a product of the decade in question”, but young enough that I wouldn’t have been able to do anything about this even if I had wanted to.

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Here are some chosen quotes from the video:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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It would be fascinating to see [Max Headroom] return, as long as we make sure to remember, this time, that [he’s] not your friend. Max Headroom is a bigot, and he’s not even big enough to admit it.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n

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Max was designed by British creators who cheekily implied that Americans would always worship celebrity, even if it was made of this, acted like this, and looked<\/em> like this<\/em> \u2026and we the American public not only failed to get the joke, we put it in front of rallies with red banners to advertise soda, because of course we did.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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