Comments by "Harry Mills" (@harrymills2770) on "Westworld Needs To Stop" video.
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I think WestWorld suffers from the same kind of "How do we get to the spectacle we want?" issues I found so glaring in the Star Wars prequels. It's like "parallel construction" in the criminal-justice system, where they try to make it look like their case did NOT depend on illegally-obtained surveillance. 'There just happened to be an agent on the corner observing these events, your honor. Here's her sworn affidavit.' Just a coincidence the agent happened to be on that corner at that moment. Nothing to do with NSA intercepts and finding a drug dealer within 2 degrees of separation from a person within 2 degrees of separation from a suspected terrorist."
It's not a direct comparison, but it just jumped into my head as the same sort of "back-filled" story-telling.
"We know where we want to end up, where all the fun is, so QUICK, let's slap together a back story to get us there!"
"How do we do that?"
"It's super-easy! Barely an inconvenience! We make people as dumb or as smart as they need to be to achieve our plot points!"
But we "anti-feminist" men need to understand why there's such a push to write a bunch of heavy-handed, feminist trash. There are a LOT of man-boys in the world, today. There's more to learn than there ever was before in history AND there are more entertaining distractions than ever before in history. But we're still mired in "There's only one copy in town, so let's all go to the same place at the same time, and the owner might let us look at it or read to us from it."
The one-room schoolhouse is a great idea. The town can afford one copy of everything. But they're not going to fork over for new books for everybody, every year. That took the immense largesse of 20th-Century industrialization, where books for all the kids (on a rotating basis) was a relatively small expenditure, which it wouldn't be in a hardscrabble farming and ranching community, where cash is pretty scarce, despite a relatively high standard of living - high enough to reach for your kids' education.
Anyway, we're way beyond that, now. But that's the basic learning model of the public schools. Totally obsolete, except for the genius-level hook of keeping the kids occupied for a guaranteed 6-plus hours every day, 5 days a week. I think we should use learning management systems, where people buy the courses they want, for somewhere between (I'd guess) $20 and $100 per course. Once the LMS is built, it runs itself. THEN you need humans who thoroughly understand the topics, with, say, a customer rating system. "Did they know the subject? Were they quick? Were they clear?" Three checkboxes after every service, pushing better tutors to the top. Like Uber...
Seriously, I think if people started looking for and demanding those kinds of products, that such products would be available, at very reasonable prices. Record all sessions. Parents can sample any of it with one tap. We're woefully primitive in how we teach our youngsters, especially our young boys, nowadays. Make the work semi-fun. A lot of THAT is achieved by promoting the best, most engaging instructors, so that the good ones get the biggest audiences. Make it COMPETITIVE.
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