[ExI] Book review - Hate Inc. Why Today’s Media Makes Us Despise One Another by Matt Taibbi

[William Flynn Wallace]

 the artworks that imitate the life I live.  None of the Hollyweird films
describe even slightly anything I know  spike


But spike, most people's live are dull.  They don't want to see dull
lives.  They want fantasy.  Would I like to see a movie based on a week of
your life?  Hmmm?  The 20th century featured scores of supermen and other
fantasy creatures in movies, books, TV, video games, cartoons.  That was
the century of neoteny:  the persistence of the juvenile into adulthood.
Look at me:  I am nearly 78 and read sci-fi and fantasy.  Maybe not the
Power Rangers.


bill w

On Thu, Jan 2, 2020 at 1:02 PM spike jones via extropy-chat <
extropy-chat at lists.extropy.org> wrote:

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> On Thu, Jan 2, 2020 at 8:06 AM spike jones via extropy-chat <
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> Perhaps what I am thinking about is more movies like Chariots of Fire (oh
> that one is so good.)  And The Truman Show.
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> I wonder, would any major studio produce a film based on shadow people
> promulgating these ten rules, and an enlightened few who try to fight them?
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> That would seem to be an effective way to get the public educated about
> resisting these specific manipulations.
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> Perhaps not.  The videos would need to be low budget.  If you viewed
> Rent-A-Person, that was made for a few thousand bucks.  The guy who made it
> used his friends and college roommate to act the parts.  His father is the
> banker you see shaking the rising business-startup guy’s hand.  His
> roommate is the photographer at the end of the story.
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> These kinds of productions would be in competition with the mainstream
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> It is said that art imitates life.  Kurt Kuenne’s works Rent-A-Person and
> Validation are the artworks that imitate the life I live.  None of the
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