Chinese author writes a novel about how to, as an alien force, use people afflicted by misanthropy to infiltrate and colonise their home world.
What an excellent way to put ideas into the heads of others, without them realising what they are being primed to accept.
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The above I put there because there's no way of writing something warning about something, without that warning also being an ideas-level "how-to" guide at the same time.
Also, there's no way to warn about an idea (a meme as it's called nowadays in this age of pictogram and petroglyph resurgence as the main means of communication) without the warning containing the idea.
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And the above paragraph is of course an example of itself; I'm trying to warn that a novel written by a Chinese, a novel that's been through the censorship-process and is thus party-approved for publishing, may well be intended as memetic weapon to introduce ideas into Western minds that said minds would otherwise reject if the packaging had been different. A historical echo: none of the dystopian classics were well-received when they were first published. Often, they were censored (Yevgeni Zamjatin's 'We', the novel used by Orwell as a template for '1984' f.e.) or publicly mocked and reviled or simply ignored ('The Iron Heel' f.e., by Jack London) by their contemporaries. If it was a question of "hitting too close to home" or something else, we can't know.
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Just felt a compulsion to add something at least a little tangentially related to something in the post: I generally don't listen to podcasts since I read so much faster than people talk (yes, even Ben Shapiro), so can't comment on those.
Yes, that's certainly a perspective on the first novel that hits rather close to home. Though the surface level propaganda is perhaps more what the censors would approve of: "religious thinking is bad", "the cultural revolution was a mistake", "China strong, will save the world".
I remember “Sam Hell Comes to Frogtown” in which there is a scene where the head frog is threatening to rape the captive woman in which he then “exposes” himself to her. And his privies turned out to be some sort of gelatinous mass of something.
Or you can watch it for free on the totally unethically, probably malicious, undoubtedly illegal, free Russian bootleg channel, ok.ru. And unlike much of the fare to be found there, this is not dubbed into Farsi with Spanish subtitles, it's entirely in English.
I read Academia is Women's Work, but couldn't post there. Much has changed, but the article rings true. I attended undergraduate graduate school in the arts long before DEI or Affirmative Action. Originally, the degree was to be in industrial design (packaging, labels, product design, etc.) which required courses like drafting, glaze calculation and testing, and materials. The classes were about half male on average. About 2 years into my degree the university changed the courses to reflect more of the arts. A lot of us were ticked off about that.
At any rate, I was later put up for a professorship that opened up in graduate school at another university. According to the professor who put me up, there was a long debate and argument over me, who they considered the best artist, and a man. As a new building was being put up, the man won because one on the committee argued he could build shelves when they moved to the new building. Of course they never asked if I could do that, which I had for my business. And of course, none of the professors were ever tasked to build any shelves. There were no women in that art faculty, except one art historian.
Men jealously protect their space, particularly when it is typically considered a female domain. Later, I heard the guy they picked was a disappointment professionally and disliked by the rest of the faculty. Well, my business did well. Fuck 'em if they can't take a joke.
Post script: The moral of my real life experience is: Have honest standards for hiring, hire the best qualified, and stop trying to rig everything to meet some social goal. People will seek out the professions they want. It will sort itself out without the interference.
Chinese author writes a novel about how to, as an alien force, use people afflicted by misanthropy to infiltrate and colonise their home world.
What an excellent way to put ideas into the heads of others, without them realising what they are being primed to accept.
...
The above I put there because there's no way of writing something warning about something, without that warning also being an ideas-level "how-to" guide at the same time.
Also, there's no way to warn about an idea (a meme as it's called nowadays in this age of pictogram and petroglyph resurgence as the main means of communication) without the warning containing the idea.
...
And the above paragraph is of course an example of itself; I'm trying to warn that a novel written by a Chinese, a novel that's been through the censorship-process and is thus party-approved for publishing, may well be intended as memetic weapon to introduce ideas into Western minds that said minds would otherwise reject if the packaging had been different. A historical echo: none of the dystopian classics were well-received when they were first published. Often, they were censored (Yevgeni Zamjatin's 'We', the novel used by Orwell as a template for '1984' f.e.) or publicly mocked and reviled or simply ignored ('The Iron Heel' f.e., by Jack London) by their contemporaries. If it was a question of "hitting too close to home" or something else, we can't know.
...
Just felt a compulsion to add something at least a little tangentially related to something in the post: I generally don't listen to podcasts since I read so much faster than people talk (yes, even Ben Shapiro), so can't comment on those.
Yes, that's certainly a perspective on the first novel that hits rather close to home. Though the surface level propaganda is perhaps more what the censors would approve of: "religious thinking is bad", "the cultural revolution was a mistake", "China strong, will save the world".
Downloaded several. Looking forward to them.
Hello, do you think that the latest revelations about UFO from guy Brown are a fake intending to manipulate people?
https://www.sott.net/article/499313-Whistleblower-goes-public-on-IMMACULATE-CONSTELLATION-alleges-covert-US-program-monitoring-UFOs
Thank you!
No idea.
Interesting stuff as always
I remember “Sam Hell Comes to Frogtown” in which there is a scene where the head frog is threatening to rape the captive woman in which he then “exposes” himself to her. And his privies turned out to be some sort of gelatinous mass of something.
I priced Hell Comes To Frogtown DVDs on Amazon...cheapest was $80 and pricing went all the way up to the $390s.
Yeah.
Or you can watch it for free on the totally unethically, probably malicious, undoubtedly illegal, free Russian bootleg channel, ok.ru. And unlike much of the fare to be found there, this is not dubbed into Farsi with Spanish subtitles, it's entirely in English.
https://ok.ru/video/9279022959241
I have no idea how they found it.
They've got all sorts of wacky things, some of which are up before wide release in the US.
Of course, they probably also have all my bank statements, tax returns, porn views and medical search terms. But hey, who doesn't?
You rule.
Thanks.
https://archive.org/details/hell-comes-to-frogtown_202301
Free download
Nice.
Thank you!
I read Academia is Women's Work, but couldn't post there. Much has changed, but the article rings true. I attended undergraduate graduate school in the arts long before DEI or Affirmative Action. Originally, the degree was to be in industrial design (packaging, labels, product design, etc.) which required courses like drafting, glaze calculation and testing, and materials. The classes were about half male on average. About 2 years into my degree the university changed the courses to reflect more of the arts. A lot of us were ticked off about that.
At any rate, I was later put up for a professorship that opened up in graduate school at another university. According to the professor who put me up, there was a long debate and argument over me, who they considered the best artist, and a man. As a new building was being put up, the man won because one on the committee argued he could build shelves when they moved to the new building. Of course they never asked if I could do that, which I had for my business. And of course, none of the professors were ever tasked to build any shelves. There were no women in that art faculty, except one art historian.
Men jealously protect their space, particularly when it is typically considered a female domain. Later, I heard the guy they picked was a disappointment professionally and disliked by the rest of the faculty. Well, my business did well. Fuck 'em if they can't take a joke.
Post script: The moral of my real life experience is: Have honest standards for hiring, hire the best qualified, and stop trying to rig everything to meet some social goal. People will seek out the professions they want. It will sort itself out without the interference.