Watching a 1995 TV movie "Colony" starring John Ritter. It's about a couple that moves into a draconian* surveillance-based gated community.

It's so full of lingering 80s-style moral panic about how carjackers and home invasions and crack addicts are going to destroy the delicate fiber of American society (as opposed to, you know, the billionaires who actually destroyed it).

Plenty of good old-fashioned "what if machines..." technoparanoia, too, of a sort I'm kind of surprised to see from the early Internet era. Again, fascinating to compare it to the Internet Of Shit that actually happened--instead of an overtly oppressive surveillance state, we have voluntary surveillance under consumer capitalism. (OK, we've got a little of each, but you know what I mean. :) )

And it's a perfect example of why I watch this stuff. It's so head-clearing to see the DOOOOOOMs of the past and remind myself that America's always been out of it's fucking mind.

*apologies to lizard frens for ethnic slur