On Mon, Dec 10, 2018 at 04:23:55PM -0300, juan wrote:
On Mon, 10 Dec 2018 18:45:36 +0000 (UTC) jim bell <jdb10987@yahoo.com> wrote:
Secondly, I did in fact comment.
Yes, my bad and I apologize.
See the reference above to the movie, Dr. Strangelove. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ybSzoLCCX-Y&t=94s At 4:13. Maybe you (maybe even the large majority of you?) are just way too young to have seen this movie.
haha I wish I was way too young - Anyway, I know the movie is a classic of sorts. I think it's an anti war movie to some degree. And i even tried watching it a while back but didn't find it interesting (but maybe I should try again)
It's pretty fucking funny. Peter Sellers is hilarious. Maybe the funniest thing about all of it is what Daniel Ellsberg and some of his colleagues at the RAND corporation said to each other when they came out of seeing it at a movie theater in 1964: "That was a documentary" Ellsberg did some nasty nuclear work with the RAND people long before the pentagon papers came out... he wrote a decent book about it (fairly) recently. https://www.wired.com/2018/03/geeks-guide-doctor-strangelove/ There's a link in the above to a (podcast) interview with Ellsberg that is pretty interesting.
Sorry that you didn't get the joke.
nah, I'm fully to blame =)
So I guess bottom line is that current propaganda has already been ridiculed in fiction just like the current dystopian world was predicted by Huxley and Orwell.
Jim Bell ×
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