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

[Adrian Tymes]

More comedy than tragedy, if one counts dark humor as humor.

On Thu, Jan 2, 2020 at 1:14 PM William Flynn Wallace via extropy-chat <
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> Tragedy or comedy?  bill w
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> On Thu, Jan 2, 2020 at 2:16 PM Adrian Tymes via extropy-chat <
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>> I dunno, some weeks of my life could almost support a movie.  >_>
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>> On Thu, Jan 2, 2020 at 11:31 AM William Flynn Wallace via extropy-chat <
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>>>  the artworks that imitate the life I live.  None of the Hollyweird
>>> films describe even slightly anything I know  spike
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>>> 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.
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>>> bill w
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>>> On Thu, Jan 2, 2020 at 1:02 PM spike jones via extropy-chat <
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>>>> *>*> *On Behalf Of *Adrian Tymes via extropy-chat
>>>> *Subject:* Re: [ExI] Book review - Hate Inc. Why Today’s Media Makes
>>>> Us Despise One Another by Matt Taibbi
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>>>> On Thu, Jan 2, 2020 at 8:06 AM spike jones via extropy-chat <
>>>> extropy-chat at lists.extropy.org> wrote:
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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
>>>> Hollyweird nonsense.
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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
>>>> Hollyweird films describe even slightly anything I know.
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>>>> spike
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