and one might think these guys lived their whole lives in some soulless corporate dystopia. It's like they were driven to cling to an ideology just because no one else was shoving it up their throats.
I wonder if they'd be happy nowadays in this hyper-politicized world where every idea becomes almost a religion.
I'm sorry, but your comment is far too complex for the Internet.
shareFirst of all, 'your tiny brain' and 'the Internet' are two separate, different things.
Secondly, that comment is not particularly complex, it's just written incoherently, doesn't express a legitimate, valid or interesting point, and looks like some kind of regurgitation of someone else's idea, smudged all over with the typical misunderstandings of the feeble mind that tend to frequent these boards.
There should be an actual topic, not a 'beginning of an incoherent sentence that makes no sense', to underline what the point is (not that there really is one).
Let's see if I can simplify and translate this to actual english.
"Cold War ended a long time ago, so life became wonderful and perfect - but according to this movie, these 'guys' (really just one 'guy') still lived in a grey, miserable oppression behind the Iron Curtain.
The cultural and corporate brainwashing from every conceivable source that tries to mold men into obedient work drones and wage slaves shouldn't have been enough to turn two (or actually, one) otherwise happy, normal and well-adjusted people into these depressed, cowardly materialists that blindly obey the corporate message, because clearly they DID have a choice to be a hippy of some kind.
The narrator was expecting someone to SHOVE a 'good ideology' down his throat, because he has no will or mind of his own, so he couldn't have fought the ideological brainwashing by himself, he needed 'someone else' to do it for him before he could rise above materialism and corporate worship.
We can wonder about just how differently they would perceive the current world, where ideologies are even stronger and ARE, in fact, shoved down people's throats, even though they are not the previously discussed GOOD ideologies, they might still contribute to fabrication of a more well-rounded self-image that wouldn't need a materialistic system to self-perpetuate. "
Did I get it right? Did I get close?
In any case, there's a logical fallacy when the original poster is saying something like 'being driven to cling to an ideology (what ideology?), because no one else (besides whom? Themselves? Then you use the term 'no one', you don't need the 'else') was showing IT (undefined word, could point to almost anything, needs clarification - but if it points to 'ideology', then how can the same ideology be something 'they' cling to, JUST because no one is shoving IT down their throats? Shouldn't it be a DIFFERENT ideology that no one is shoving down their throats, or the whole throat-shoving becomes MEANINGLESS, because they are ALREADY CLINGING to it? Makes no sense.)
"..lived their whole lives in some soulless corporate dystopia."
Otherwise known as "Planet Earth".