Mr. Robot and BREXIT

"It is ironic to watch this at the same time as the BREXIT happened. Although they deal with two different events, the impact on world wide markets is devastating."

I just finished my first binge watching in quite a while. It is a show that has been out for months now, but I just watched it based on what others have been saying about it. I would be lying if I said this was not gritty - it is. The acting is suburb. Not just a little suburb - a lot suburb. The writing is excellent, and according to my techie son-in-law, the script writers did a whole lot of research and attention to detail.

I will not be a spoiler for season one of Mr. Robot. However, I say this much. It is ironic to watch this show at the same time as the BREXIT happened. Although they deal with two different events, the impact on world wide markets had some similarities. And the thing that Glenn Beck talked about after seeing season one, proper hacking, along with the help of a nation state with truculent interests, can bring down corporations and maybe even some countries.

The movement which flourished after the "big hack" was called fsociety. Similar to the Anonymous group who in real life wear Guy Fawkes masks, fsociety members wear masks that look like the character in the Monopoly game. With most of the major corporations losing their financial data, companies had no clue on who owed them money. Everything was gone. People world wide who were enslaved to debt, were now free. That was the premise of season one.

One of the best lines in the final episode of season one was when one of the members of the group who carried out the hack asked a very simple question after the hack. "What about tomorrow?" One of the other members answered, "Who cares? Party for tonight. We won!"

I immediately thought about BREXIT. The day after the vote. All the celebration. But what about tomorrow? What is the plan? It is reported that many who voted for BREXIT are amazed and shocked that the vote passed. Maybe they were just hoping to send a message, not to have this and unchartered massive change.

It did also remind me of something else which hit closer to home. The election of Jesse Ventura as our Governor. For many (myself included) I voted for the guy as a protest. Never in a million years did I think Jesse would win. Maybe he did not expect it either. But then he did win, and the same question came up - "What about tomorrow?" As we can remember, the "tomorrows" under the Ventura Administration became very murky. And lots and lots of buyer's remorse.

How did Mr. Robot end up? Don't know. Season two comes out in July. But it is just a show. BREXIT is real life. And the tomorrows will have to count. It is like we learned in the Iraq War. Not having a plan for all the tomorrows ended up a huge mess.

Stay tuned folks. History is being made every day now.