<div dir="ltr">More comedy than tragedy, if one counts dark humor as humor.</div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Thu, Jan 2, 2020 at 1:14 PM William Flynn Wallace via extropy-chat <<a href="mailto:extropy-chat@lists.extropy.org">extropy-chat@lists.extropy.org</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:"comic sans ms",sans-serif;font-size:small;color:rgb(0,0,0)">Tragedy or comedy? bill w</div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Thu, Jan 2, 2020 at 2:16 PM Adrian Tymes via extropy-chat <<a href="mailto:extropy-chat@lists.extropy.org" target="_blank">extropy-chat@lists.extropy.org</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr"><div>I dunno, some weeks of my life could almost support a movie. >_></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Thu, Jan 2, 2020 at 11:31 AM William Flynn Wallace via extropy-chat <<a href="mailto:extropy-chat@lists.extropy.org" target="_blank">extropy-chat@lists.extropy.org</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr"><div style="font-family:"comic sans ms",sans-serif;font-size:small"><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif"><span style="color:rgb(34,34,34)"> the artworks that imitate the life I live. None of the Hollyweird films describe even slightly anything I know spike </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif"><span style="color:rgb(34,34,34)"><br></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif"><span style="color:rgb(34,34,34)">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. </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif"><span style="color:rgb(34,34,34)"><br></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif"><span style="color:rgb(34,34,34)">bill w</span></p></div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Thu, Jan 2, 2020 at 1:02 PM spike jones via extropy-chat <<a href="mailto:extropy-chat@lists.extropy.org" target="_blank">extropy-chat@lists.extropy.org</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div lang="EN-US"><div><p class="MsoNormal"><u></u> <u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal"><u></u> <u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal"><b>></b>> <b>On Behalf Of </b>Adrian Tymes via extropy-chat<br><b>Subject:</b> Re: [ExI] Book review - Hate Inc. Why Today’s Media Makes Us Despise One Another by Matt Taibbi<u></u><u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal"><u></u> <u></u></p><div><div><p class="MsoNormal">On Thu, Jan 2, 2020 at 8:06 AM spike jones via extropy-chat <<a href="mailto:extropy-chat@lists.extropy.org" target="_blank">extropy-chat@lists.extropy.org</a>> wrote:<u></u><u></u></p></div><div><blockquote style="border-top:none;border-right:none;border-bottom:none;border-left:1pt solid rgb(204,204,204);padding:0in 0in 0in 6pt;margin-left:4.8pt;margin-right:0in"><p class="MsoNormal">Perhaps what I am thinking about is more movies like Chariots of Fire (oh that one is so good.) And The Truman Show. <u></u><u></u></p></blockquote><div><p class="MsoNormal"><u></u> <u></u></p></div><div><p class="MsoNormal">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?<u></u><u></u></p></div><div><p class="MsoNormal"><u></u> <u></u></p></div><div><p class="MsoNormal">That would seem to be an effective way to get the public educated about resisting these specific manipulations. <u></u><u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal"><u></u> <u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal"><u></u> <u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal"><u></u> <u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal"><u></u> <u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal"><u></u> <u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal"><u></u> <u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal">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.<u></u><u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal"><u></u> <u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal">These kinds of productions would be in competition with the mainstream Hollyweird nonsense.<u></u><u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal"><u></u> <u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal">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.<u></u><u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal"><u></u> <u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal">spike<u></u><u></u></p></div></div></div></div></div>_______________________________________________<br>
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