Dang I liked Dune. I had the feeling Villeneuve was the guy to pull off how big and foreign the universe is but he created one of the most vivid film-worlds I've ever seen
I liked Bladerunner 2049 a fair bit but didn't *love* it. But something about how he presented that world made me think that if anyone could handle Dune it was him
I read several reviews today to take in the consensus and even the most snark- and irony-poisoned critics who wanted to dislike it could only take a few light swings at it
Because the mood somehow *is* just as cyclopean as its visuals. Far outside what they're used to
Anyway if you've been on the fence it has my whole endorsement. Insanely immersive, hugely imaginative, basically no wokeness
Only real complaint you can level at it is it feels like only half of a story. But that's because it is—and I'm mad I have to wait 2 years for the rest
Oh, and I would watch it in the theater over at home. Most times I don't really care, but for me this was one of the very rare times that I was so captured by the bigness I forgot I was even in a theater.
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Frankly, hiring a few NEETs to maintain a Real History of Current Year would be a better use of money than nearly any other project right now
Both to preserve the true counter-narrative, + simply to maintain the memory of all these events that are so easy to forget in the deluge
Based
Remember that one of the cores of this thing is to exist as a counter-propaganda movement. The 1/6 "insurrection" was fake news from the start, on a level unrivaled outside of the Russian Collusion Hoax
Trust can't be restored within the framework of the regime. It can't allow itself to be reformed, because pulling up any plank of the system undermines nearly every other part of it as well. Reform, for it, is collapse
So its survival requires enforcing complete submission to it
Complete submission is by no means guaranteed, they actually have very little will to use force (so far), and use of force tends to be a failure-mode within democracy, hence "nudges," "policies," and anarcho-tyranny, all forms of hand-washing away responsibility
But as for restoring trust, that simply can't happen within this framework. Coercion is their only remaining option. Engineering and enforcing the fake appearance of trust, to match the rest of the fake and gay regime
lmao. This is why @Tinkzorg is one of my most favorite recent follows
It's no coincidence that Jurassic Park as explained here "got it," because Michael Crichton "got it," that's how Crichton coined the Gell-Mann Amnesia effect, the original "fake news"
One of the simplest ways of understanding American politics, and by extension all Western politics, is that you have a once-stable political system (post-WW2 order) increasingly pushed toward a chaotic instability
Hence Brexit, Trump, Italy, Hungary, even Bolsonaro, etc
The ruling order—described in this piece as the guy automating the electric fences to keep the dinosaurs out—is increasingly unable to sustain those once-electric fences
It won't allow a "Trump" etc to repair them, either. That's why I think we're inevitably headed towards chaos
This is the Big Fat Skeleton Key to understanding nearly everything around us. This culture's basic ideological framework is that everything that exists is a result of nurture and environment (including "socio-economic status")
This is shocking and upsetting in many ways, because a culture that promises everything is the result of nurture means that you can always wildly improve your lot in life—and especially your children's—by adhering to the scientifically-approved nurture, environment, and policies
But the fact is we're all limited, in many ways, and to an immense variance between us all, from the moment we are conceived
Yet I find this immensely liberating, in the *real* sense of the word. For it relieves everyone of being in constant competition with everyone, for life
"Why have our discussions about class shifted away from money?", asks the genius, whose political party has become the party of the wealthy and whose propaganda media organ sets the national political narrative
Imagine believing that the car dealership owner in Wherever Ohio with a net worth of $4M has any real political power in comparison to the entire academic-media class whose ideology has also conquered Google Facebook etc
This is the precise position of a huge amount of them, which is why they are nonetheless "elites" despite not having much money, in that they have real political power that they wield to further advance the interests of the "true" elites they wish to join
The Cathedral looking as strong as it's ever been in some ways while also being on absolute fucking life support is just beyond all reckoning. No one can predict where this is going at this point
On the one hand: almost total institutional capture. On the other hand: it can't even answer the questions of its own pet media anymore
And this phenomenon isn't just about the presidency, it's about every realm of it
Science is increasingly shutting down all internal questions that might contradict it; higher education the same (while also panickedly treating its students like convicts until a broken Science finally solves the plague); even the military purging itself for purity over function