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bob oakes's avatar

Agree completely with your Algorithmic Prison take.

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David S's avatar

We’ve all been fortunate enough to grow up in the most prosperous country the world has ever seen during the most peaceful 75 years of human history. Ethnic cleansing, massacres, famine - those things still happened, but without the same frequency. They certainly didn’t happen here. Couldn’t happen here.

No more. Movies like the Long Walk confront that. Or at least that seems to be their intention. I don’t need that. I’d feel the same way as credits rolled.

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Jake's avatar

I think we can call it - social media was a mistake. Well, algorithmic social media is a mistake. Mass media always dehumanized people, which is fine when it is fictional characters. Then it morphed into making sport of public figures, Paul Reubens come to mind. Then we took “real people” and made them into “celebrity stars.” Now social media turns everybody into targets of ridicule. A person’s worst day goes “viral.” We lose sight of people’s humanity and then lose ours in the process.

It’s all like a Stephen King novella.

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Lori P's avatar

It was a great book, 30 years ago, but I love almost All Steven King. I do not think I would want to see that violence in movie form.

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Jesse K's avatar

Wait, isn't Richard Bachmann a pseudonym for Stephen King? Why are you acting like he's a different person lolz.

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Patrick Alt's avatar

"One is the desire of accelerationists on both sides to speed us toward societal disaster."

And here we are. Talk me off the ledge, but I'm afraid I'll be jumping sometime soon.

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Tom Cooper's avatar

This morning, in response to an AP article on the Charlie Kirk shooter, a guy (not a bot, not a troll, a real live person) posted that these events wouldn't happen if the government would just broadcast live Pay Per View executions.

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Tom Cooper's avatar

In fact, Kirk himself said this: [Death penalties] should be public, should be quick, should be televised… I think at a certain age, it’s an initiation… At what age should you start to see public executions?"

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bob oakes's avatar

Public executions were quite public back in the day. The guilty were hung in the public square and people packed picnic lunches for the event. These were not the mob led lynchings of the south, but the government sanctioned kind.

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J Burns's avatar

I actually find it interesting that a Hollywood media reporter's social group is that MAGA that his network are people despondent about someone who hated minorities so much.

Thats like a Broadway reporter whose friends all cheered when Harvey Milk was shot.

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Sonny Bunch's avatar

Appreciate the very first commenter proving JVL's impulse to keep comments closed on posts like these correct.

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Castlefornia's avatar

I could not have thought less of Kirk as a person, but I think horror at seeing a real-life person get murdered is a human and moral reaction, aside from despondence at what the shooting seemed to portend for future violence. (I hope the prospect for retaliatory violence has decreased now that it seems this wasn't a left vs. right thing.)

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