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<p>I did watch the first episode (Watchmen) and it tweaked my morbid
fascination (where is the boundary with cynical obsession)... it
was very well done, and in fact I watched it a second time to pick
up a good dozen more tiny clues to the alternate sheaf in the
multiverse. <br>
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<p> I did my time as a Comic Book fiend (albeit with very limited
geographic and financial access) in the 60s but this strand of the
DC multiverse was not familiar to me until the movie came out a
few years ago. The gritty "hardboiled" undertones are easy for me
to get seduced by and I've long been a lay-student of the
techniques used in graphic novels (presaged by serial comics).</p>
<p>This morning I noticed in my news feed the new "threat" of a
primarily Chinese-owned company/app called Tik-Tok... way to
eerily close to the subtheme in the watchmen as voiced by Don
John'son's character at the end of the first episode.. (Tik Tok,
Tik Tok)</p>
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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 10/23/19 3:41 PM, Marcus Daniels
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<p class="MsoNormal">HBO new take on The Watchmen seems like a
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<a class="moz-txt-link-rfc2396E" href="mailto:friam-bounces@redfish.com"><friam-bounces@redfish.com></a> on behalf of Jochen
Fromm <a class="moz-txt-link-rfc2396E" href="mailto:jofr@cas-group.net"><jofr@cas-group.net></a><br>
<b>Reply-To: </b>The Friday Morning Applied Complexity
Coffee Group <a class="moz-txt-link-rfc2396E" href="mailto:friam@redfish.com"><friam@redfish.com></a><br>
<b>Date: </b>Wednesday, October 23, 2019 at 2:39 PM<br>
<b>To: </b>The Friday Morning Applied Complexity Coffee
Group <a class="moz-txt-link-rfc2396E" href="mailto:friam@redfish.com"><friam@redfish.com></a><br>
<b>Subject: </b>[FRIAM] John Steinbeck in the 21st
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<p class="MsoNormal">I recently stumbled upon John Steinbeck's
classic novel "The Grapes of Wrath" and wonder if it is
similar to the situation today. You will all know it since
it is often read in High Schools, right? (I had to read
Goethe in School. And "Animal Farm" plus "To kill a Mocking
Bird" in the English class).<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">As you know Steinbeck describes how
migrants from Oklahoma called Okies look for a better life
in California. They travel along the Route 66, which
Steinbeck helped to make popular, passed Albuquerque and
Santa Fe, and drove to the West until they arrived in
California where the locals disliked and rejected them.<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Today we have migrants from Cuba and
Mexico looking for a better life in the US and refugees from
Syria and Afghanistan who cause a lot of trouble in the EU.
Many of these refugees and migrants live in camps, just like
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<p class="MsoNormal">Steinbeck's novel takes place during the
"Dust Bowl". Today the dry regions in the South suffer from
droughts and wild fires caused by Climate Change worldwide.
Everything sounds similar, as if history is repeating
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