How did you get into Clockwork Orange at 14? I believe it was rated X. For a reason.
--- Frank C. Wimberly 140 Calle Ojo Feliz, Santa Fe, NM 87505 505 670-9918 Santa Fe, NM On Fri, May 8, 2020, 9:30 AM Steven A Smith <[email protected]> wrote: > Glen - > > https://tonightweriot.com/ > > tonight we riot is a revolutionary crowd brawler about worker liberation and > lobbing molotovs at mech suits & crazy bosses! > > I have always been fascinated (a bit morbidly) with the tension between > "sublimating" angry/reactive/violent/revolutionary behaviour and > "aggravating" it. > > I was fairly (too?) young (14) when I watched "Clockwork Orange" and it > left me VERY disturbed... mainly because I saw myself in the young > "droogs"... not that I was already channeling their negative energy openly. > > I *was* feeling it (my oats, general discontent with the establishment, > etc.) and trying to figure out what to do with it. It doesn't help that > this was about the time I was coming to realize what Vietnam meant TO ME... > which on one end of a spectrum (that I could apprehend) was an opportunity > to leave the podunk towns I came from and go do something important (fix > world problems, do something important, be a hero) and on the other be a > part of something deeply horrific and not easy to ever return from whole > (mentally, spiriatually, possibly physically). It was 1971 and the > appetite for the Vietnam war was waning among the establishment, not just > the youth and the counter-culture, but there was still plenty of tension > and I saw no reason that *I* would not be likely to be called to go play > "kill or be killed". > > I haven't heard much about the Antifa movement, nor Anonymous lately. I > doubt that means they have lost their appetite for "resistance". I > suspect this game is targeted more at that group than say... the Open Carry > RedHatters? > > A "core feature" is described as: > > The unique catharsis that comes from throat-punching a billionaire ghoul > who would rather watch the world and everyone on it burn than lose a tax > break > > I am perhaps most disturbed by realizing this could be an MMO, effectively > recruiting a large number of young (mostly men) sheltering in place in > their parents basements, just waiting for the trigger to boil up and out > like so many termites or fire-ants. > > Some of the theoretical work in interreality ( > https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mixed_reality#Interreality_physics) seems > to provide some foreboding around the "alternate realities" that are > emerging with our pan-global mediation OF reality. > > As an antidote to this kind of stuff, I'm just now watching the SFI > discussion on the topic of Pandemic Resilience: > > https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K63Y6uU7j18 > > - Steve > > > > > > .-. .- -. -.. --- -- -..-. -.. --- - ... -..-. .- -. -.. -..-. -.. .- ... > .... . ... > FRIAM Applied Complexity Group listserv > Zoom Fridays 9:30a-12p Mtn GMT-6 bit.ly/virtualfriam > unsubscribe http://redfish.com/mailman/listinfo/friam_redfish.com > archives: http://friam.471366.n2.nabble.com/ > FRIAM-COMIC http://friam-comic.blogspot.com/ >
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