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The age is a side issue. What I want to know is why they took away the great ironic heart of the character, namely that before the war, Serena Joy was a famous televangelist. This situation wasn't something that was cooked up for the war - Serena had spent YEARS advocating exactly this kind of thing. There's a line in the book that sums it all up perfectly, when Ofglenn is thinking about how Serena is just as imprisoned as herself, "How furious she must have been to have been taken at her word." Now that most basic bitterness - having all her fame and power stripped away by getting what she demanded, and then finding out it's hell - is gone, and that's too bad, because it was one of the best things about the book, in my opinion. (I really don't get some of the changes made, some of them make little sense, and some seem to be made solely to keep from upsetting somebody.)
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As they say, the apple doesn't fall far from the tree. Back in the early 90's, I worked temp jobs at several tech companies in Scotts Valley, including Borland. Everyone I heard mention Steve Jobs' name hated, hated, HATED that jerk. NO ONE had a good word for him. He was a narcissistic, abusive jerk even back then, and he only got worse. Hardly surprising the company he ran roughshod in would take after him, as company culture spreads from the top down, so gaslighting? Absolutely typical. Not the least bit shocking, in fact, I'd have been surprised if Apple wasn't like that. That's what you get from a second-rate salesman who took his own acid trips way too seriously, who had cute ideas then bullied and browbeat everyone around him into doing all the work while he took all the credit. What's sad is that it hasn't changed at all.
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I'm sorry, but you're wrong. Like every other industry, there are horrible people and decent people in entertainment. I worked in production offices and I did some gigs as a background actor, and I can tell you there are plenty of decent people. (Google Robert Rodriguez's story about how he fought to shit in Weinstein's eye for what he did to Rose McGowan, for instance.) But as always, the predatory and the vicious create a climate of fear and aberration which is hard for people who aren't in that industry to grasp. It's not like working retail or a restaurant. These are dream jobs that millions of people long to have. And they are VERY difficult to get at any real level of success. Achieving status in entertainment is a big commitment, and it's very hard not to rationalize putting up with vast amounts of shit to keep that dream. I'm very glad at every person that's speaking up, but although I'm not happy at their silence, to be honest, I don't know what I would have said or done had I been in any position to feel that getting out wasn't what I wanted. I did leave because I didn't like it at all, but I was at a very low level so I wasn't really giving up that much. But being confronted with that awfulness at the level of a regular working actress with union backing and name recognition? I don't know. I'm not judging anyone, even though I would judge myself very harshly. That is one fucked-up, WEIRD industry, and it's easy to get trapped for much longer than one would hope..
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I'm still flabbergasted by this bizarre trend of brides thinking they're owed money by the people attending, just because they're getting married. When I got married, WE paid for our maids' and groomsmen's outfits. My parents paid for the food, my dress was a gift from a friend of my mom, who was a seamstress. The photos were done by my photographer brother, a friend of my dad did a video for us. We got some really nice gifts, but none of them had a price tag of over $150. We had a backyard wedding, and TEN YEARS LATER, we were still hearing from friends how it was the best party they ever attended. Why in the world do girls think they have to have some insanely lavish shindig and THOUSANDS of dollars in gifts? (Not to mention a honeymoon paid for by their guests, WTF??) Where did this insanity come from? I can't fathom it. (And this nonsense about OMG IT'S MY DAY. Give me a break. That "my day" comes from back when the reason for it was that it was the LAST day that a girl would be a person in her own right. After that day, she belonged to her husband and her whole life would be lived as an adjunct to HIS identity. So keep your ignorant, entitled bullshit about OMG MY DAYYYYYY.)
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LOL, no, child. This is not Orwellian. That would be you not being allowed to choose ANYTHING about your life, including where you work, who you talk to, and who you marry, if you're allowed to marry at all. It would be never being able to say a single word that isn't approved, and being kidnapped and tortured into blind obedience if you try. THIS is crappy and invasive, but it's a long way from being Orwellian, mainly because you can CHOOSE not to get into the car. In Oceania, there is no choice about anything.
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Idea for a scene from The West Wing:
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(No, it's my scene, you can't have it.)
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Gee, what might accomplish that without having to buy another sovereign nation's land? Hm, let me think. Maybe some kind of treaty, you know, where all the nations who oppose Russia's lust for dominance get together and commit to helping each other fight back. Hm, what would we call such a thing? An organization, maybe? They'd be based around the Atlantic, so that'd have to be in the name... Man, this is a poser, but I'm sure if we think REALLY FUCKING HARD, we can come up with the OBVIOUS FUCKING ANSWER that if Twitler had respected THE FUCKING TREATY THAT'S ALREADY THERE, nobody would have to be thinking about this shit because Russia WOULDN'T HAVE THE FUCKING POWER to do the heinous crap it's only getting away with because of the FUCKING INSANE PUPPET PUTIN MANAGED TO GET INTO THE WHITE HOUSE.
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A lot of the reason for that separation, at least in terms of media, is the rise of cable and now the internet, which have cracked and separated the media people take in. Back in the 60's and 70's, there were only THREE national television channels, and each area would have maybe five local channels. That was all there was, so everyone watched pretty much the same programs, saw the same news reports, etc. The news programs themselves were produced because when we only had the airwaves, the government REQUIRED that television networks produce a certain amount of content per day (the news programs) that were NOT ALLOWED TO MAKE MONEY. They were solely produced for the public benefit, and ratings had nothing to do with it. With the rise of cable, that ended, and "the news" became just another money maker, and thus less and less trustworthy as time went on, until now we have a whole network devoted to nothing but propaganda, something that would have unthinkable for most of the 20th century, when such programming was relegated to the backwaters of local radio. There was no universal electronic communication forum, and certainly no means by which anyone, no matter how ignorant or deluded or dangerous, could easily disseminate their views - if you wanted information outside of the news, you had to go to a physical location like a library, and disseminating information meant expensive and time-consuming and most of all, LIMITED means like the post office. Now people can take in media streams that are wholly separate, and so you have a populace whose segments literally believe the world is completely different from what the "other guys" think it is. I honestly don't see any way out of this for America other than the complete crash of our entire media universe. There simply is no way to unite our country anymore. This is what moguls like Rupert Murdoch have done to our world, and we may well all end up burning in a nuclear holocaust because a tiny handful of people care more about their own power and wealth than about anyone else.
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+Jonathan Doe Funny, I don't remember saying it wasn't chaos. I know that perfectly well, But you're making assumptions about what other beings experience based solely on the fact that you can't talk to them, and they're not particularly interested in talking to you. You might as well say that deaf and dumb people aren't humans because the same applies. (Which is what used to be the prevailing belief, by the way.) We're learning more about animals every day, and a great deal of it has to do with their having a far more complex inner life than we, in our self-serving way, have ever given them credit for. It's been very convenient to think that animals aren't self-aware, because then we can exploit them however we like. But there's no proof of that; there's only conjecture and consensus based on what we want. Sorry, but that's the truth - humans tend to order the universe according to the whims and convenience of humans. It's been ever thus, but that's starting to change, and about time.
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