Post by rorschalk on Jul 24, 2023 20:59:47 GMT
The sights and sounds of Novorossiya were either nefarious or enlightening, depending on
perspective. In the last two days, the Pasupathis had found themselves uniquely situated at this
geopolitical crossroads as citizen journalists of a non-aligned state, and had taken every
precaution to preserve the sanctity of journalistic neutrality, even if every other media outlet for
thousands of miles in every direction had not. The trip had been a balancing act between eastern
and western sensibilities, capitalism and anti-capitalism, imperialism and isolationism, and
democracy and autocracy. But they’d discovered the lines between these different schools of
thought had drastically blurred in recent years.
I really really dug the theme of this cap., the above para being a fairly succinct summary of the overall thrust of the narrative. Brought to us from the future of 2048, it implies that Russia v. Ukraine proxy NATO (ie USA) War that started in 2021 is still in some form or another is still, at least propaganda style psychological warfare style, going strong. For who knows why, other than to line the pockets of the stockholders and workers at Raytheon, Northrup Grumman, Boeing and the like. The commission of corruption at the top is so taken for granted, it’s not even an issue anymore. Talking at us from 2048, the situation sounds awfully familiar to what it going on today at the top of our political systems. Any semblance of opposition parties is a ruse because war is good for business in the halls of power of DC, the currency of weapons systems sold outstripping the concern of souls fed into the unending cycles of violent confrontation used to grind these ogres’ bread.
The action, the je nais se quoi of it I’ll talk about shortly, takes place in a region of … Russia? By that time we’re all just calling it Rus which is all our monosyllabic attention spans can deal with by then, I grok is the point. A husband/wife journalist team making stories out of something called Operation Sucker Punch (which if you ask me, Covid 19 lies and its attendant hysteria could have just as well been named) in which an EMP was detonated upon a large swath of the city Novorossiya. It’s never made clear who EMP’d who. Like the definition of truth these days, the meaning is always changing, uncertain and amorphous as tears in the rain. The couple are fully augmented, meaning they are either wearing some kind of virtual reality or it seems more likely old Elon somewhere between now and then, got his brain chip industry going. Anyhow. They walk around with Google maps and running newsfeeds crawling through their heads … brought to them, no doubt, by Pfizer. This kind of metaverse is the logical endpoint of where we are all being herded by our precious (precious as in Smeagol and his indispensable ring of power) smart phones and it very well and subtly done by the VC. It’s not made a big deal of, it’s just the way it is and has been for a time by then. Sad but it really does seem predetermined prophecy that’s not hard to see.
So, the male side of this pair seems to have been hacked by some kind of disinfo bomb that rattled his mind and, like sodium pentothal, speaking the unvarnished and, judging by the ending, illegal truths. He ends up being basically shackled and taken away to some dank dark prison for saying that which shall not be spoken, that we’re living in a mausoleum and don’t even know it. This paragraph is very good. It’s a harbinger of things to come, when free speech is wrongspeak punishable by jail time and even torture and all the shiny happy people are still getting out there consuming like good citizens who are too stubborn to admit they are slaves. I mean, it’s got all the hallmarks of the psychological campaign waged against us that last 3 years and since we have willfully surrendered out privacy and spatial autonomy for GPS and Angry Birds in our back pockets…a sure sign of the slow motion destruction of the freedom we say we hold so dear but have all already surrendered to Zuckerberg et al, not with sober genuflection, but with glee.
So after all this positive build up, why am I giving NOVOROSSIYA a pass? The ideas are super relevant to our moment in time, but the execution is somewhat dead pan, dry even. It’s told more often than shown. Yeah, I know the old shibboleth SHOW DON’T TELL killed this cat. I enjoyed reading NOVOROSSIYA mainly because it was so prescient and told of a terrifying dystopia that are well on their way to coming into full bloom if society doesn’t course correct and throw out all the assholes at the top living high on the hog and letting us eat cake. And the very way which truth is made into something not quite graspable, tailored even too everyone, no matter how obviously suffering from mental illness, where society as whole is walking in a perpetual fog of war, both kinetic and even more so psychological. Kafkaesque, think The Trial, to give it a literary antecedent. But like I said, I wanted a more cinematic approach. I guess that’s one of my biases, give me imagery and action through space, even sloppy and inexact if it’s got some juice to it. Not to say NOVOROSSIYA doesn’t have some fine passages like this, but just not enough. It remains a great commentary on the virtual hell we’re all headed into with seeming indifference for the slow devolution of the one great experiment that was government for the people and not the barons and the kings. This will most likely get published elsewhere and I say that with high confidence, but, like I said, I am biased toward action and, how you say?, more picturesque presentation. Again, I really dug this cap, but have passed on it for the reasons I hope I have made clear in this lengthy analysis. Best of luck to you johnVC in all your future capital creations.
perspective. In the last two days, the Pasupathis had found themselves uniquely situated at this
geopolitical crossroads as citizen journalists of a non-aligned state, and had taken every
precaution to preserve the sanctity of journalistic neutrality, even if every other media outlet for
thousands of miles in every direction had not. The trip had been a balancing act between eastern
and western sensibilities, capitalism and anti-capitalism, imperialism and isolationism, and
democracy and autocracy. But they’d discovered the lines between these different schools of
thought had drastically blurred in recent years.
I really really dug the theme of this cap., the above para being a fairly succinct summary of the overall thrust of the narrative. Brought to us from the future of 2048, it implies that Russia v. Ukraine proxy NATO (ie USA) War that started in 2021 is still in some form or another is still, at least propaganda style psychological warfare style, going strong. For who knows why, other than to line the pockets of the stockholders and workers at Raytheon, Northrup Grumman, Boeing and the like. The commission of corruption at the top is so taken for granted, it’s not even an issue anymore. Talking at us from 2048, the situation sounds awfully familiar to what it going on today at the top of our political systems. Any semblance of opposition parties is a ruse because war is good for business in the halls of power of DC, the currency of weapons systems sold outstripping the concern of souls fed into the unending cycles of violent confrontation used to grind these ogres’ bread.
The action, the je nais se quoi of it I’ll talk about shortly, takes place in a region of … Russia? By that time we’re all just calling it Rus which is all our monosyllabic attention spans can deal with by then, I grok is the point. A husband/wife journalist team making stories out of something called Operation Sucker Punch (which if you ask me, Covid 19 lies and its attendant hysteria could have just as well been named) in which an EMP was detonated upon a large swath of the city Novorossiya. It’s never made clear who EMP’d who. Like the definition of truth these days, the meaning is always changing, uncertain and amorphous as tears in the rain. The couple are fully augmented, meaning they are either wearing some kind of virtual reality or it seems more likely old Elon somewhere between now and then, got his brain chip industry going. Anyhow. They walk around with Google maps and running newsfeeds crawling through their heads … brought to them, no doubt, by Pfizer. This kind of metaverse is the logical endpoint of where we are all being herded by our precious (precious as in Smeagol and his indispensable ring of power) smart phones and it very well and subtly done by the VC. It’s not made a big deal of, it’s just the way it is and has been for a time by then. Sad but it really does seem predetermined prophecy that’s not hard to see.
So, the male side of this pair seems to have been hacked by some kind of disinfo bomb that rattled his mind and, like sodium pentothal, speaking the unvarnished and, judging by the ending, illegal truths. He ends up being basically shackled and taken away to some dank dark prison for saying that which shall not be spoken, that we’re living in a mausoleum and don’t even know it. This paragraph is very good. It’s a harbinger of things to come, when free speech is wrongspeak punishable by jail time and even torture and all the shiny happy people are still getting out there consuming like good citizens who are too stubborn to admit they are slaves. I mean, it’s got all the hallmarks of the psychological campaign waged against us that last 3 years and since we have willfully surrendered out privacy and spatial autonomy for GPS and Angry Birds in our back pockets…a sure sign of the slow motion destruction of the freedom we say we hold so dear but have all already surrendered to Zuckerberg et al, not with sober genuflection, but with glee.
So after all this positive build up, why am I giving NOVOROSSIYA a pass? The ideas are super relevant to our moment in time, but the execution is somewhat dead pan, dry even. It’s told more often than shown. Yeah, I know the old shibboleth SHOW DON’T TELL killed this cat. I enjoyed reading NOVOROSSIYA mainly because it was so prescient and told of a terrifying dystopia that are well on their way to coming into full bloom if society doesn’t course correct and throw out all the assholes at the top living high on the hog and letting us eat cake. And the very way which truth is made into something not quite graspable, tailored even too everyone, no matter how obviously suffering from mental illness, where society as whole is walking in a perpetual fog of war, both kinetic and even more so psychological. Kafkaesque, think The Trial, to give it a literary antecedent. But like I said, I wanted a more cinematic approach. I guess that’s one of my biases, give me imagery and action through space, even sloppy and inexact if it’s got some juice to it. Not to say NOVOROSSIYA doesn’t have some fine passages like this, but just not enough. It remains a great commentary on the virtual hell we’re all headed into with seeming indifference for the slow devolution of the one great experiment that was government for the people and not the barons and the kings. This will most likely get published elsewhere and I say that with high confidence, but, like I said, I am biased toward action and, how you say?, more picturesque presentation. Again, I really dug this cap, but have passed on it for the reasons I hope I have made clear in this lengthy analysis. Best of luck to you johnVC in all your future capital creations.
