Weekly Response#7

The Black Mirror episode “Nosedive” was about the society where people rate each other for every interaction. Lacie was the center character of this episode,who was very conscious about her rating and wanted to prove herself on the top. She was not living her natural life. She was faking on everything for example, on having a conversation, eating food, walking on the street, dressing style and so on. Throughout the episode, she ran before rating but at the end, she realized that it is not the rating that matters in life. This episode resembles today’s society in certain ways because in our real society too people are being rated based on their profession and behavior. Every person has their unique thoughts and way of living. Some people might be highly successful while some might be still struggling and trying hard to be successful. The quality of life for poor people might be different because of their financial condition but the basic things that are in common with them are happiness and satisfaction. But nowadays, the definition of happiness and satisfaction has changed in our society. They focus on physical happiness rather than mental happiness. It is important to realize that physical happiness is temporary while mental happiness is permanent. People try to imitate the lifestyle of rich people and are living a fake life. For example, we can see that most of the people nowadays are using social media such as Facebook and Instagram as a platform to show off. They are more aware of how other people will judge them. And the sad part is that people are judging just by looking the post on Instagram or Facebook. People should be judged based on their behavior and nature not based on their physical appearance or lifestyle. I also believe that rating should be done for the object and devices but not for the people.