Anyway, thank you so much for your commentary, and I’m grateful for your thoughtful words, and in this case, I’m glad the internet exists for positive connections like this.

Also, the actual soundtrack/score which has gone from The Clash (no synths) to either remixed to include synths (Journey), or just embrace the Synths from the beginning (Kate Bush)

Then there are some of us that grew up without the Upside down, but were forced into is ala Will. We’re a bridge between worlds. We can navigate the analog and the digital seemlessly because we lived in both.

Children are being forced onto the internet now, and what are the ramifications of that?

How is what the internet’s doing to children any different than what it did to Eleven and the rest of the numbered kids?

Did you ever think about the role music had on the whole theme?

It’s clearly a mode to connect us, ground us, and it can be enlightening, and all of those things are positive as they work with the internet.

But there’s Billy, he too listens to music, but he’s missing all of that.

Technology is no longer a tool or an aspect of culture, it is the culture.

It’s a bleak landscape, it’s a nightmarish world where things are distorted and trolls lurk (demogorgans), catfish are people that resemble friends and loved ones but are nefarious…

Technology within ST is a tool, but it’s a flawed one. It’s got limits. The TV fuzzes, the phone breaks up, the batteries die, etc.

But what happens when technology is all encompassing? When it rules every aspect of life? When everything powers technology?

Every season of ST starts with a problem multiple characters experience, but don’t communicate with others in the tribe. The problem gets worse. Once the tribe communicates, the problem gets resolved eventually. It’s not quick, it’s not easy, but eventually we work together to resolve problems.

My theory rests on the importance of communication to society’s survival. Without effective communication we go into pathos, lizard brain.

TL;DR Stranger Things is an allegory for the dangers of the internet on society.

There’s so much there.

The person who was on the same wavelength as me was @mchlmorelli.bsky.social back in 2016 he wrote:

www.salon.com/2016/09/01/w...

My therapist said:
Just work for an hour on Sunday, do what you need to do and forget the day.

I did that once. I guess it helped. I still don’t think I should be working on Sunday.

But is thinking about work and what I need to do the same as “work”? Am I doing “work” without realizing it?

Monday happens… the anxiety crescendo peaks at about 11AM…

I realize I’m not going to die.

The day is OK or whatever.

It ends… I work my way to Sunday.

Start the process.

It’s just a never ending loop of me thinking:

“I need to do ____…”

Also me:
“It’s Sunday, I shouldn’t be working, it can wait until tomorrow”

Me again:
“Tomorrow you’re going to be so unprepared…”

Also me:
“La La La La La La, I can’t hear you”

Looming darkness and disappointment awaits…