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I mean books 3 (Xenocide) and 4 (Children of the Mind), as well as his The Memory of Earth series.
Better than the hyper-mormon ending to Ender’s Game~
Yeah another contender of ‘fantastic show that produces an absurd ending that kind of ruins it’. But it was a wild ride the whole time, and I enjoyed it.
4·2 months agoHyperNormalisation is a 2016 BBC documentary by British filmmaker Adam Curtis. It argues that following the global economic crises of the 1970s, governments, financiers and technological utopians gave up on trying to shape the complex “real world” and instead established a simpler “fake world” for the benefit of multi-national corporations that is kept stable by neoliberal governments.
[HyperNormalization] describes paradoxes of Soviet life during the 1970s and 1980s. He says everyone in the Soviet Union knew the system was failing, but no one could imagine any alternative to the status quo, and politicians and citizens alike were resigned to maintaining the pretense of a functioning society. Over time, the mass delusion became a self-fulfilling prophecy, with everyone accepting it as the new norm rather than pretend, an effect Yurchak termed hypernormalisation.
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In Battlestar Galactica, humanity has fled earth after a hostile takeover by AI. On their last remaining ark fleeing to a habitable planet are Cylons, AI disguised as humans, some not even aware they ARE cylons. Fantastic show.
23·2 months agoDon’t forget the second one he threw immediately afterward
The movie isn’t for everyone even if you agree with its message. It’s a really dry satire. I enjoyed it because the movie made me feel like I was going crazy as I watched it, and that feeling has stuck with me.
That sounds like something a carapaced bottom-dwelling aquatic scavenger would say…
It’s a movie, it doesn’t need to be “useful”. Some people were entertained, some people were emotionally affected. It was successful art. And we’re still talking about it.
The incessant lurch of time makes us crab and there’s nothing we can do about it
They also resent anti-runon-sentence propaganda
3·3 months agoI find it difficult to reconcile how the writer of Speaker for the Dead is such a bigot. Dude took a hard swerve at some point.
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