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.
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). 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) On 10/23/19 3:41 PM, Marcus Daniels wrote: > > HBO new take on The Watchmen seems like a pretty good take > (extrapolation) on conflict in the United States today. > > > > *From: *Friam <friam-boun...@redfish.com> on behalf of Jochen Fromm > <j...@cas-group.net> > *Reply-To: *The Friday Morning Applied Complexity Coffee Group > <friam@redfish.com> > *Date: *Wednesday, October 23, 2019 at 2:39 PM > *To: *The Friday Morning Applied Complexity Coffee Group > <friam@redfish.com> > *Subject: *[FRIAM] John Steinbeck in the 21st century > > > > 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). > > > > 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. > > https://www.nationalgeographic.org/news/grapes-wrath > > > > 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 the ones Steinbeck visited. > > https://www.theguardian.com/books/2002/feb/02/johnsteinbeck.socialsciences > > > > 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 itself. > > https://www.history.com/news/10-things-you-may-not-know-about-the-dust-bowl > > > > -J. > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > ============================================================ > FRIAM Applied Complexity Group listserv > Meets Fridays 9a-11:30 at cafe at St. John's College > to unsubscribe http://redfish.com/mailman/listinfo/friam_redfish.com > archives back to 2003: http://friam.471366.n2.nabble.com/ > FRIAM-COMIC http://friam-comic.blogspot.com/ by Dr. Strangelove
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