Candace Owens - Did "The Simpsons" Predict This Madness?
Aired: 2024-02-07
Duration: 03:16


=== Mark Zuckerberg's Dystopian Smile (02:33) ===

[00:00:00]  I had more hope for humanity.
[00:00:01]  I really did.
[00:00:03]  I remember when I was seeing photos, actually it was one particular photo, it was of Mark
[00:00:10]  Zuckerberg.
[00:00:11]  He was testing VR glasses.
[00:00:13]  I don't know if it was at some conference.
[00:00:15]  And this was the photo.
[00:00:16]  Let me just show it to you.
[00:00:17]  I thought, this looks like a dystopian nightmare.
[00:00:21]  The way that he's smiling, he always looks evil.
[00:00:24]  There's something about him that he just looks like he's going to turn into an alien.
[00:00:28]  His skin is just going to fall off.
[00:00:30]  And then all of these people that look like slaves, he's like, yes, this is the slave culture that I want going forward.
[00:00:38]  Technology will enslave the masses.
[00:00:41]  So evil!
[00:00:42]  But he wasn't the first person that predicted this.
[00:00:46]  No, I think that he might have just been the visionary that said, can we make this real?
[00:00:52]  Of course, it's always The Simpsons.
[00:00:53]  I don't know how it happens.
[00:00:53]  There's a conspiracy theory that the people who wrote The Simpsons are from the future because everything that they wrote that was so obscure at the time has somehow become true.
[00:01:04]  They notoriously had Donald Trump coming down an escalator decades ago, announcing his run for president.
[00:01:10]  And then he came down an escalator and announced his run for president.
[00:01:13]  And yes, they also had a vision regarding these VR glasses.
[00:01:18]  Take a look.
[00:01:40]  That just can't happen, except it is happening.
[00:01:43]  Here is a person presumably commuting to work the other day on the subway.
[00:01:51]  I gotta say, that guy, confidence.
[00:02:05]  I'm not confident enough to look that crazy.
[00:02:07]  And we had covered, actually, the VR glasses.
[00:02:09]  I talked about how strange it was.
[00:02:12]  I tried them just once, and it was terrifying because it did seem like it was reality.
[00:02:17]  I was afraid to jump off of this fake elevator, even though, obviously, I knew I was safe.

=== Hoping for Sanity (00:57) ===

[00:02:24]  in reality, in my real world, I did not want to jump.
[00:02:28]  I refused to do it because I sensed that the doom was the fake reality that was being created
[00:02:32]  by the VR goggles.
[00:02:34]  Again, very dystopian to think that people will begin to pick this up.
[00:02:37]  We are becoming enslaved by our technology.
[00:02:40]  There's no question about it.
[00:02:41]  I guess the bigger question would just be who's benefiting from that enslavement, right?
[00:02:46]  I'm hoping that this brave person on the subway is not going to be the average person and
[00:02:52]  that we aren't going to see the majority of people that are commuting and walking with
[00:02:57]  their VR glasses.
[00:02:58]  I'm hoping that we can return to some sort of sanity, which means that it's incumbent upon us parents to not allow our children to experiment with this sort of technology.
[00:03:09]  But also, I do want to remind you guys that shame works.
[00:03:13]  Look at people, laugh at them, and be like, what on earth are you doing?