
Writer-director; creator of Squid Game South Korea
Center-left
Late capitalism as a deadly children's game: inequality, greed, and election-era polarization are the real VIP lounge — Netflix just financed the allegory.
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However these days, I do not think that is the case. The conflict and divide that comes from taking different sides in an election is becoming more and more extremist, where people no longer think that other people can be different from you. It's more of, 'I'm right, and all of you are wrong.' … On top of that, there is so much populism and propaganda, as well as AI-generated fake news and an algorithm-based consumption of news.
You can say this is a story of those who have become losers of the game, and also those of us who are shaken to our core because of the chaotic political landscape. I wanted to focus in Season 3 on how in this world, where incessant greed is always fueled, it's like a jungle — the strong eating the weak, where people climb higher by stepping on other people's heads.
Source: Los Angeles Times ↗I think fundamentally what continues to drive this system is human selfishness and greed. These days I'm becoming more pessimistic about human nature. I almost think that, for homo sapiens, it's greed that allows them to create a society that they feel most comfortable in.
Source: CBS News Sunday Morning ↗The rest of the record — every position, the goals behind them, and where a newer stance sits awkwardly with an older one — is on the details page.