[FRIAM] belly of the beast

[Steven A Smith]

glen sed:
> Bah! The shiny objects are for diachronics. We episodics dream of storming a bunker and finding alien versions of ourselves.
Tangenting off of the (unintended?) resonance with the "Do Androids
Dream of Electric Sheep?":

Why just bend a thread when you can give it a good twist and a kink or
two? 

I'm a big fan of Amazon's production of PK Dick's "Man in the High
Castle" and in particular of the twists and bends that characters of the
likes of US Captain John Smith ((co)incidentally my grandfather's name)
cum-Obergruppensfuhrer of the conquering Nazi Reich.   He is American in
his core which can be quite twisted when working at the top-levels of
the new/American Nazi hierarchy.  When his Perfect Aryan son is
diagnosed with a genetic disease he does all he can (up to and including
murder) to protect him from the eugenic unction implied... only to have
the son turn himself in for extermination (like a good little
Brown-Shirt) without malice toward his parents (nor Reich)who were
prepared to do anything to keep him alive.   Add to this the central
theme of a multiverse where the main crossover between branching
narratives are these celluloid movies... roughly like the propaganda
"newsreels" of the time from both sides... but from different timelines
with the same key characters (including John Smith and his family)
popping up over and over... a bit like finding an alien (but not
unrecognizeable?) version of oneself.

I think this storyline plays well with your (Glen's) episodic/diachronic
distinction....

I'm a month behind on Watchmen which I know at least Marcus has watched
(is following)...

Both series engage/stimulate my /Schadenfruede/ nicely.  I don't
recommend either for most here...  they are at least as twisted as the
more widely known (I think) "Handmaid's Tale".  I was already a fan of
Dick and Atwood, but mostly unfamiliar with the (Marvel?) Watchmen
before the movie which preceded (and is barely referenced by?) the series.

My recent engagement in the implied "Doomsday Clock" and SD model
(World3) ensemble generation (a multiverse of sorts) of "Endogenous
Existential Threats" has me walking around muttering "Tik Tok!" and
feeling my cheeks for the ghost saber scars that I know MUST be there to
reflect said /Schadenfruedian /responses/.
/

- Steve

>
> On 12/27/19 10:06 AM, Marcus Daniels wrote:
>> Ha!  Have you ever had a dream you were storming the beaches of Normandy only to find the person in the bunker was a former superior?   At LANL they periodically stamp-out awards for staff to hang on the wall.   From SFI, I have no such shiny objects to distract from my PTSD.   It is funny how experiences later in life are less memorable, but just as consequential.  
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