It was a perfect storm of animosity made worse by a government that allowed things to fester (due to upstarts and greedy people who took advantage of a situation to help themselves to the spoils of war; $500 was pretty much the life savings of many people back in that time period, and the fact they would get paid that much to kill someone "legally" was what makes it all the more atrocious.)
It's also important to put some of this into perspective, Abe Lincoln's grandfather was killed by native Indians in the late 1700s, and he seemed to view them in the same way that a Confederate should be killed if they were intent on killing settlers (or people such as Germans who were offered to take over their land.)
And now people know why World Wars start in Europe. . .
Re: What are you watching?
Posted: Sat Jan 14, 2023 11:29 pm
by Catoptric
I was pretty sure the "Philadelphia Experiment" was just some elaborate sci-fi that took on a popular interest, and the people in this presentation just started expounding on people's gullibility to profit off of it, though I really don't know.
People misinterpret a degaussing procedure as some kind of special secret project, which then got out of hand in people's imagination (a bit like how nuclear radiation "aka weather" test balloons were becoming increasingly associated with other alien-based stories.) https://www.history.navy.mil/research/l ... iment.html
Start at 2 minutes (and play it at 1.5-2x speed. . . or not at all?)
Jefferson, TX seems to believe a Sasquatch was reported, and if you venture into the woodland area you can see the. . . Locals. . . living out in the woods. The Ozark mountains are spooky enough at night, and during the day you can hear a bunch of the rednecks living in those areas shooting at deer, with no consideration to the possibility they might accidentally shoot people.
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Re: What are you watching?
Posted: Sun Jan 15, 2023 1:39 am
by avolkiteshvara
White Lotus.
Fun to piece together more subtle parts of the show for hidden narrative.
But is really just a modern rehash of American Beauty and Matrix.
ABOUT CHOKEPOINT CAPITALISM
A call to action for the creative class and labor movement to rally against the power of Big Tech and Big Media
Corporate concentration has breached the stratosphere, as have corporate profits. An ever-expanding constellation of industries are now monopolies (where sellers have excessive power over buyers) or monopsonies (where buyers hold the whip hand over sellers)—or both.
In Chokepoint Capitalism, scholar Rebecca Giblin and writer and activist Cory Doctorow argue we’re in a new era of “chokepoint capitalism,” with exploitative businesses creating insurmountable barriers to competition that enable them to capture value that should rightfully go to others. All workers are weakened by this, but the problem is especially well-illustrated by the plight of creative workers. From Amazon’s use of digital rights management and bundling to radically change the economics of book publishing, to Google and Facebook’s siphoning away of ad revenues from news media, and the Big Three record labels’ use of inordinately long contracts to up their own margins at the cost of artists, chokepoints are everywhere.
By analyzing book publishing and news, live music and music streaming, screenwriting, radio and more, Giblin and Doctorow deftly show how powerful corporations construct “anti-competitive flywheels” designed to lock in users and suppliers, make their markets hostile to new entrants, and then force workers and suppliers to accept unfairly low prices.
In the book’s second half, Giblin and Doctorow then explain how to batter through those chokepoints, with tools ranging from transparency rights to collective action and ownership, radical interoperability, contract terminations, job guarantees, and minimum wages for creative work.
Chokepoint Capitalism is a call to workers of all sectors to unite to help smash these chokepoints and take back the power and profit that’s being heisted away—before it’s too late.
etc
Or
I'm more interested in:
The Capital Order: How Economists Invented Austerity and Paved the Way to Fascism by Clara Mattei
Well obviously theirs a lot of other memorable characters/scenes, but it's mostly due to the nature of how Police and Detectives became tropes in movies, much like this film.
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Re: What are you watching?
Posted: Thu Jan 19, 2023 6:42 pm
by Catoptric
Fast forward to the start of the show
It seems to echo 'Bicycle Thief' (guilty, "not guilty," because of circumstances that compelled his actions.)
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I think the Adam and Eve Story is referring to a Crypto bomb (cryptography,) and posted the documents from the Defense agencies in the 'What are you Reading' thread, when I (think it was the same) watched an excerpt from this. I might be mistaken (since it wasn't apparent he was referencing a book recently published, though it seems to imply pole shifts and the actual documents don't show any indication?
Update: I came across the document mentioned in the video and incidentally I "rediscovered" it looking over my pdfs, which I had for over a year. This is the file mentioned in the video: https://www.cia.gov/readingroom/docs/CI ... 0001-8.pdf
Aside from the mouth ticks (I think of Slavoj Žižek and his "coke fiend" nose rubbing) he speaks the truth about how commodifying women's bodies as property to be extracted and recompensed for being squandered by "property violations. . ."
Re: What are you watching?
Posted: Sat Jan 21, 2023 10:41 pm
by Yesterday
These two could be Madrigal's distant twin cousins.
I had a compilation of his movies and I thought the only ones missing was Yojimbo, Sanjuro Ran and Dodeskaden (aside from some of the movies either didn't play completely or were not with English subtitles.)
Kurosawa has films that will either bore the crap out of you with their delivery, or completely enmesh you in following every bit of it. I suppose the propaganda film was left out because they were selling to American audiences, but also for Kurosawa he felt more like that one Director that was abducted by Kim Jong Un and forced to make movies.
Definitely was the basis for Red Dead Redemption 2
Currently playing Witcher 3 (last started it in 2016 and hadn't played it for more than 10 hours) though within the last few days have put in another 30 hours. Some will play the game for close to 200 hours to complete everything on the map.
The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance (this is in English)
(Cowboy Beebop in addition to Samurai Champloo, Kids on the Slope, Space Dandy, Terror in Resonance, Carole and Tuesday, Michiko and Hatchin, Lupin the Third,
And movies Mind Game (2004), Macross Plus (OVA and Movie Edition which some would argue are both worth watching, though I would just do the movie.)
Alternatively, get a vhs copy of Cowboy Beebop that's 5x the file size (though is a bit like watching Cartoon Network circa 2000?) https://archive.org/details/sitm1
I should point out the animated series was only ever intended to be 1 season (26 episodes) though it might have continued on initially had the animated version been more easily adapted for merchandise sales (such as model kits for the ship.)
More info:
Netflix (which I have never much cared for) tried to do an actor recreation of the series and possibly continue on into a second season, and this may not be a bad thing... that it didn't continue on further (and potentially ruin something that's considered somewhat iconic?)