[ExI] evil laughs, was: RE: voting machines again

William Flynn Wallace foozler83 at gmail.com
Fri Aug 26 00:36:26 UTC 2016


Were we to resurrect Mary Shelley today and show her everything that has
been done with her book, first thing she would ask is why no one seemed to
grasp the whole Prometheus message, and why the whole terrifying monster
angle seems to be the focus.


spike


*It's not just simplify, it's dumb down, just like we do with language by
eliding, creating acronyms, making fun of long words.  (has anyone any idea
why this is ghosting?)*

On Thu, Aug 25, 2016 at 6:54 PM, spike <spike66 at att.net> wrote:

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> *From:* extropy-chat [mailto:extropy-chat-bounces at lists.extropy.org] *On
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> *Subject:* Re: [ExI] evil laughs, was: RE: voting machines again
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>  If Henry Frankenstein was such a terrific doctor, creating a living human
> from parts of corpses, why the hell couldn’t he do something, anything, for
> Igor’s painfully misshapen back?
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> Here's a question:  how many people who know the story have read the
> book?  Dr. Jekyll and Mr Hyde reads far differently from what you would
> think, for example.
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> There was a lot of subtlety in Mary Shelley’s book which are completely
> lost in any attempt at a film version.  If any director or screenwriter
> attempted to express the intent and message of the original, it would be
> lost on audiences today.  We are accustomed to having messages trimmed to
> the bone and slammed into our brains.
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> As I wrote that, it occurred to me that we have collectively become
> program management and the moviemakers the engineering group.  When an
> engineer is requested to pitch for Mahogany Row, we are advised to cut out
> any extraneous anything, get right to the point, make to crackle, give it
> punch, make your case and get off the stage.  They don’t have the time or
> interest in your engineering subtleties and don’t care how cool is your
> design.  It can be rather discouraging.
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> Were we to resurrect Mary Shelley today and show her everything that has
> been done with her book, first thing she would ask is why no one seemed to
> grasp the whole Prometheus message, and why the whole terrifying monster
> angle seems to be the focus.
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> spike
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