<div dir="auto">How did you get into Clockwork Orange at 14? I believe it was rated X. For a reason.<br><br><div data-smartmail="gmail_signature">---<br>Frank C. Wimberly<br>140 Calle Ojo Feliz, <br>Santa Fe, NM 87505<br><br>505 670-9918<br>Santa Fe, NM</div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Fri, May 8, 2020, 9:30 AM Steven A Smith <<a href="mailto:sasmyth@swcp.com">sasmyth@swcp.com</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
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<pre>tonight we riot is a revolutionary crowd brawler about worker liberation and lobbing molotovs at mech suits & crazy bosses!
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<p>I have always been fascinated (a bit morbidly) with the tension
between "sublimating" angry/reactive/violent/revolutionary
behaviour and "aggravating" it. <br>
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<p>I was fairly (too?) young (14) when I watched "Clockwork Orange"
and it left me VERY disturbed... mainly because I saw myself in
the young "droogs"... not that I was already channeling their
negative energy openly.</p>
<p>I *was* feeling it (my oats, general discontent with the
establishment, etc.) and trying to figure out what to do with it.
It doesn't help that this was about the time I was coming to
realize what Vietnam meant TO ME... which on one end of a spectrum
(that I could apprehend) was an opportunity to leave the podunk
towns I came from and go do something important (fix world
problems, do something important, be a hero) and on the other be a
part of something deeply horrific and not easy to ever return from
whole (mentally, spiriatually, possibly physically). It was 1971
and the appetite for the Vietnam war was waning among the
establishment, not just the youth and the counter-culture, but
there was still plenty of tension and I saw no reason that *I*
would not be likely to be called to go play "kill or be killed".</p>
<p>I haven't heard much about the Antifa movement, nor Anonymous
lately. I doubt that means they have lost their appetite for
"resistance". I suspect this game is targeted more at that group
than say... the Open Carry RedHatters? </p>
<p>A "core feature" is described as: <br>
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unique catharsis that comes from throat-punching a billionaire
ghoul who would rather watch the world and everyone on it burn
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<p>I am perhaps most disturbed by realizing this could be an MMO,
effectively recruiting a large number of young (mostly men)
sheltering in place in their parents basements, just waiting for
the trigger to boil up and out like so many termites or
fire-ants. <br>
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<p>Some of the theoretical work in interreality (<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mixed_reality#Interreality_physics" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mixed_reality#Interreality_physics</a>)
seems to provide some foreboding around the "alternate realities"
that are emerging with our pan-global mediation OF reality.</p>
<p>As an antidote to this kind of stuff, I'm just now watching the
SFI discussion on the topic of Pandemic Resilience:</p>
<p><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K63Y6uU7j18" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K63Y6uU7j18</a></p>
<p>- Steve<br>
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