Severance Analysis 2: Mind Control, Technology & Loneliness -- Groomed for Life in a Simulation?

An analysis of the Severance universe and its connections to DARK CITY. An exploration of memory and identity and their relation to the Self. In a world where technology exists to alter memory and dissociate identity, how can anyone be certain of his past or that his memories are authentic? If technology can change one's memory, what becomes of the Self? Have we been severed, and if so, by whom and for what reason? This installment examines methods of information control as well as the gradual elimination of intimate relationships depicted in the series and their parallels in Dark City. Are we being groomed to exist within a simulation? Come gaze once again into the black mirror.....

0:00 Introduction
0:47 Power, Espionage and the Hoarding of Knowledge
3:18 Compartmentalization & Information Control
6:02 Contingencies
12:58 The Effects of Technology on Humanness
17:49 Closing Remarks