The Y Factor

The Y Factor

a tv series that adapts "Mad Men" to the 21st century

The main characters: all men, aged between thirty and sixty, rich, famous and powerful. We only identify their age by the profile because they have already done facial interventions, they don't have wrinkles or facial expressions.

The secondary characters: all women :)

The plot: Big techs and Big banks are planning to run the world. 

First season, 5 episodes:

Episode 1 - "Designing the Future": The main characters meet in one of their big buildings to design the future for all humans. They wish to get richer, if that's possible, and even more powerful. 

Episode 2 - "Forever Young and Beautiful": The main characters also wish to stop aging or getting sick. They think they are special and entitled to have it all.

Episode 3 - "The Sky is the Limit": The main characters plan to travel to Mars.

Episode 4 - "How Easy it is to Fascinate Politicians": The main characters manage to convince politicians and governments to implement AI, robots and UBI. That's the easy part, they are simple creatures who like to please the successful people because they link "rich" to "success".

Episode 5: "After the Humans, the Superheroes": The main characters are in control. Humans are irrelevant now, they're useless. They only count as consumers of the cheap stuff sold in large pavilions where every day is "black friday".



So, this first season is just a glimpse of the future designed by mad men .)
Let's decode their agenda and prevent the destruction of the possibility of humans to build a better future for all humans, other species and the planet.

This episode of "Mad Men" shows us how we, women, could do it  :) 

"The next bubble"

Wall Street 1 and 2 are interesting films on greed, power, revenge. 
Oliver Stone is a director who likes to scratch the surface of politics and reveal what's really happening.

In Wall Street 2 "chasing money" is an addiction. Gekko uses the verb "smell".
Also interesting, the urge for "more". "What is your number?, asks the young Jake. "More", answers Bretton.

The film starts with Gekko geting out of prison. He writes a book based on his experience and becomes a celebrity who talks about the "next bubble". He explains this global disease that always ends up with the bail out of large financial institutions at the expense of taxpayers.

Greed paranoia

Greed for money. Greed for power. Greed paranoia.

The Treasure of the Sierra Madre is a John Huston. The film shows how easily men lose sanity when they are obsessed with gold, money, power.
It' s the same look of greed we see in the financial system and the political system. 
If we observe carefully when we listen to their speeches we identify certain facial expressions very similar to the faces of Bogart. :)

"The Mansion of the Gods"

"A little hope is effective, a lot of hope is dangerous" (President Snow, "The Hunger Games")

Human nature

Peter Sellers in Kubrick's Dr. Strangelove

The President calls Dimitri:

 Mandrake tries to call the President:

Kubrick knew humans were not ready to handle new technologies. Here he plays with madness, stupidity, ignorance of people in high places. 

Ordinary normal people, you know, those rare healthy and wise people, were not in charge, and even when they were, like the President himself, they couldn´t prevent the disaster. 

Something wrong will happen:

Exposed to trash culture

Trash culture, everything that makes noise and promotes violence and destruction.
We are exposed to its stimuli that distract us and disturb us in television, radio, cinema, internet, politics, humourists, press, magazines, shopping centers, streets...
Indoors and outdoors stimuli lead to conditioned behaviour and consumer habits. News of war and violence lead to fear, obedience, and also to hatred, rough words, lack of empathy.

War Inc. shows us the main characteristics of trash culture: life has no value, only power and destruction matter. Nevertheless, even in trash we can find the seeds of survival, the fragile signs of a kind human interaction: